If sun-kissed beaches, olive groves and freshly caught fish are high on your holiday wish list, a Greek Island is hard to ...

The woman, aged 65, was on holiday with her husband when the tragedy took place in Crete. Emergency services rushed to their hotel in Hersonissos and took her to Venizelio hospital. She was in ...

The Minoans were a Bronze Age people who lived on Crete and nearby islands in the eastern Mediterranean Sea. Their civilization is renowned for its art and architecture, and is thought to have ...

Crete spreads out with such scale that inadvertently bumping ... and the sophisticated resorts positioned perfectly on the sheltered waters of Mirabello Bay. These include Domes of Elounda (0030 284 ...

Crete’s off-the-beaten-track sights ... A traditional wooden fishing boat whisks you over (sometimes choppy) waves from Elounda’s pretty harbour to visit Spinalonga, a barren atoll in sheltered ...

The Greek island of Crete has been hit a 6.4-magnitude earthquake, says the US Geological Survey (USGS), with the epicentre near the eastern tip. Some buildings were damaged, and thousands of ...