Voila: Crete’s Venetian Ghost Village in the East

Voila: Crete's Venetian Ghost Village in the East

Voila stands in the far east of Crete as one of the best-preserved ghost villages in Greece, a hushed cluster of stone houses abandoned in the last century. A prosperous settlement under Venetian and then Ottoman rule, it now rewards travellers who prefer atmospheric ruins to crowded resorts. You reach it on the windswept Armeni … Read more