Taxi Tours in Heraklion City / ALLOW US TO BE YOUR GUIDE
Heraklion is the largest city in Crete and the seat of the Municipality of Heraklion, as well as the largest port of the island and the fourth largest urban center in the country. The Municipality of Heraklion, as it emerged with the Kallikratis program, is the fourth most populous of the country with 173,993 inhabitants. The capital of the island, the prefecture of the same name and the province of Temenos, today is the seat of the Decentralized Administration of Crete, the Region of Crete (re-established as the capital in 1971), as well as the seat of the Church of Crete and its Archbishop. The metropolitan church of the city is the Holy Temple of Saint Minas. The city of Heraklion for its resistance and heroism during the German invasion and the Battle of Crete (1941) was honored with the Class A War Cross.
The main economic sectors of the city are tourism, agriculture and commerce. It has an industrial area 4 km southeast of the center. Heraklion also has one of the largest airports in Greece today (second in total after Athens and the first on charter flights), "Nikos Kazantzakis" airport, as well as a port with a dense coastal transportation mainly with Piraeus and other islands.
Apart from Athens and Thessaloniki, Heraklion is the only city in Greece that contains within the same urban fabric the seats of two different Kallikratis municipalities [pending referral]. Heraklion, with a population of 140,730 inhabitants, together with the city of Nea Alikarnassos (14,635 inhabitants) and Gazi (12,606 inhabitants) from the Municipality of Malevizi, are a town-planning complex of the largest in the country.
The city of Heraklion was proclaimed for the year 2017 as the fastest growing tourist region in Europe [2]. According to the ranking, Heraklion was ranked as the 20th most visited region in Europe, as the 66th area in the Planet and as the 2nd in Greece for the year 2017, with 3.2 million visitors [3] and the 19th in Europe for 2018 with 3, 4 million visitors.
Your visit will continue with the Archeological Museum of Heraklion, the second largest in Greece after the Athens museum. It is a unique guide of Minoan life and art and brings together a large collection from all the Minoan palaces in Crete (Knossos, Phaestos, Malia, Kato Zakros, etc).
Mosaic, ceramics, gold jewelry, statues, frescoes, the Phaestos dish.
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