Nestled about an hour east of Crete's Heraklion airport lies the sleepy town of Elounda. More of a coastal village, really, it's stretched out around a quiet, sweeping bay, protected from the wind and ...

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This is very much a place for relaxing in comfort. From the hilltop main building, the resort descends in tiers towards the sea, via a zigzagging pathway through gardens of bottlebrush, jacaranda and ...

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The resort's long, low-slung structure fills the peninsula on which it sits. The retro-looking architecture mixes local stone with white painted concrete, with the same dark stone extending to the ...

Sign up for the best picks from our travel, fashion and lifestyle writers. On the steep drive down towards Elounda on the road from Agios Nikolaos, it's not hard to ...

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