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Chora
Sfakion (Sfakia) in Crete
Hotels and apartments
Chora Sfakion (Hora Sfakion or Sfakia) is a peaceful
tiny village with a small beach and pretty little natural harbour
with fishing boats, overlooked by tiered houses, and tavernas which
front the sea.
It is the central town for the region known as Sfakia,
which is renowned for its proud and fierce people, whosehospitality
is as large as their reputation. Sfakiots struggled to retaintheir
freedom from the Venetian, Turkish and German occupations, throughout
the centuries and with one look at this largely mountainous area on
thesouth-west coast, you know it to be untameable. Thousands of troops
were evacuated from here to North Africa after the Battle for Crete
in 1941.
Ferry boats arrive and leave the harbour each day to
go to other villages and towns along to the west, and late each afternoon,
in the summer months, they start arriving with the weary walkers from
the Samaria Gorge.
The walkers quickly go on their way, to once again let
the village sink into its peaceful reverie.
Hotels & apartments in Chora Sfakion
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