Lasithi Plateau: Crete’s Windmill Highland

Lasithi Plateau: Crete's Windmill Highland

The Lasithi Plateau is a wide farming plain that sits high in the mountains of eastern Crete, roughly 840 metres above the sea. The Dikti range wraps the whole plain in a rocky wall, holding a patchwork of green fields at its centre. For centuries thousands of white-sailed windmills pumped water up to those fields, … Read more

The Dikteon Cave

The Dikteon Cave

The Dikteon Cave is a sacred cave on the Lasithi Plateau in eastern-central Crete, above the village of Psychro, traditionally linked with Mount Dikti and celebrated in Greek myth as a birthplace of Zeus. It draws visitors who want to stand inside one of the island’s most storied Minoan cult places. Plan tickets and tours … Read more