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Gramvousa Islet beach
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Orestis
May 8, 2022
🏴☠️Gramvousa🏴☠️ The so called pirate island!!!. Imeri Gramvousa Island – it means ‘Tame Gramvousa’ – The 200-metre-long beach is one of the most beautiful beaches in the Mediterranean It has soft golden sand and brilliant clear turquoise water, and is fantastic for bathing, swimming and snorkeling Gramvousa hosts the remains of the fortress, which was built in the 16th century from the venetians to defend the island from the Ottoman turks. If you don’t want to walk up the 1500 steps to reach the fortress, you can just sunbath at the beach, dive in the water or grab a lunch at the ship from a daily cruise!
🏴☠️Gramvousa🏴☠️ The so called pirate island!!!. Imeri Gramvousa Island – it means ‘Tame Gramvousa’ – The 200-metre-long beach is one of the most beautiful beaches in the Mediterranean It has soft golden sand and brilliant clear turquoise water, and is fantastic for bat…
Pavlos
March 20, 2022
‘Gramvousa’ is the name of not just the peninsula but, also, a couple of islands on the Northwest edge of the Kissamos Municipality, namely Imeri and Agria Gramvousa, which are inextricably linked to the Venetian and Ottoman occupancy eras. Specifically, Imeri Gramvousa played a major role from 1579 to 1584, when Venetian cardinal Latino Orsini built the fort, which survives to this day, as part of the island’s defence fortification works and in sight of an imminent Turkish threat. This was an asymmetrical three-sided oval fort of 272 m. long walls and bastions, with an unbuilt fourth side, at its north, making use of the steep vertical rocks as natural fortification. Materials used were local limestone and greywacke. Further quarters, reservoirs and headquarters built, were fully integrated in the terrain, with alternating inclined paved areas at an altitude of 137 m. Its only access point was on the East side, up a spiralling path. A masterpiece of the era turned into an impregnable fortress with unobstructed views of the strait between Western Crete and the Peloponnese. Eventually, the fort was surrendered hands down to the Turks in 1692, when the latter bribed Venetian castellan Luca Della Rocca, who went on to live the rest of his days in Istanbul, dubbed ‘Captain Gramvousa’. Turks further fortified it with 66 long range cannons rendering it impenetrable. Every act of revolt from Cretans kept failing up to 1825 when, one day, a group of revolutionaries dressed up as Turkish soldiers, entered the fort and took over control, making Imeri Gramvousa the first of Cretan lands to be liberated from the Turks. This way, gradually, many Greek revolutionaries arrived here and established a temporary form of government called the ‘Cretan Counsel’, the seal of which — as well as that of ‘the Island of Gramvousa’ — are kept at the Historical and Ethnological Society of Greece. For several years it served as a base for guerrilla acts and night-time ambushes against the Turks and was the only place in Greece not under Turkish rule. It became a refuge for more than 3000 families and the base of the Revolutionary Committee of Crete. Its harsh living conditions and lack of supplies though sent its people often on the path of piracy, looting every ship sailing between Gramvousa and Antikythera. This stirred a negative public reaction in Europe. It was eventually reclaimed by the Turks following the Treaty of London in 1830 and deserted.
‘Gramvousa’ is the name of not just the peninsula but, also, a couple of islands on the Northwest edge of the Kissamos Municipality, namely Imeri and Agria Gramvousa, which are inextricably linked to the Venetian and Ottoman occupancy eras. Specifically, Imeri Gramvousa played a major role from 1579…
Freelance Villas
March 10, 2021
Beautifull lagoon with shells and pink coral, accessible by foot or a short boat trip which means you get to see the Island of Gramvousa as well as Balos Beach.
Niki
May 4, 2017
THE CASTLE OF GRAMVOUSA AS WE KNOW IT TODAY WAS BUILT IN THE 16TH CENTURY (1579-1584) BY THE VENETIANS OUT OF THE FEAR OF OTTOMAN EXPANSIONISM. IT IS CONSIDERED AN ARCHITECTURAL MASTERPIECE OF ITS KIND AND BECAME AN IMPENETRABLE FORTRESS.
Αντωνια Ιωαννα
September 9, 2021
It is an amazing beach called Balos . You have to take a small ship from kissamos village to go there! Many tourists visit this beach every year. It is like a small cruise very closed to Crete and this beach has so clean seawater!
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