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In the midst of the Karpathian Sea, between Crete and Rhodes, a strip of unparalleled authenticity will change the way you think about vacations. Welcome to the dreamlike Karpathos, the mythological homeland of Titans, ancient gods, and legendary heroes! Accessible via ports and an international airport, the second largest island in the Dodecanese offers everything you can imagine. Abundant exotic beaches with turquoise waters, organized or completely virgin, sandy or pebbly, will captivate your dreams! Pine forests and unique mountain landscapes will astonish you, while the twelve villages of Karpathos with their picturesque charm and authentic hospitality, along with excellent tourist services, will give you indelible memories. Mount Olympus, "perched" on the cliffs, with its countless little houses, will transport you to a culture that flourished centuries before technology!

Karpathos is not only an oasis of relaxation but also an endless source of energy. Hiking, water sports, rock climbing, diving, windsurfing, and sea excursions to the beautiful island of Saria attract friends from all over the world! For connoisseurs of good food, pure raw materials, local products, and timeless recipes are the trinity of taste. You will find authentic Karpathos everywhere, from the wild nature to the age-old traditions, the amazing festivals, weddings, and gastronomy.

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Neurolingo is an innovative software company specializing in the knowledge and research intensive field of Natural Language Processing (NLP). It is staffed by a team of experienced computer engineers, statistical experts, linguists. They focus on solving business problems in natural language data management, knowledge extraction, sentiment analysis, semantic indexing, data quality control, statistical processing, dialog systems (chatbots). Its core product is Mnemosyne, a natural language processing platform with computational linguistics and modern machine learning natural language processing technologies. Mnemosyne has been used in various projects in Greece (such as public administration, postal services, banking applications, sports, tourism). Read less

Nikos Kazantzakis Museum pays tribute to the great man of spirit, the writer, thinker, philosopher, politician, traveler Nikos Kazantzakis. It is in the central square of the village of Nikos Kazantzakis, the historical Barbarians (today's Myrtia). The "Nikos Kazantzakis Museum" Foundation is a non- profit Legal Enity under Private Law. The Museum's collection number over 50,000 objects (letters, holograms - autographs, publications - articles - studies, press releases, photographs, audio documents, animated items, theatrical material, works of art, personal items) some of which are presented in Permanent Exhibition and the rest are kept in the Archive of the Foundation. In addition to supporting research on the Kazantzaki project and the educational activity it develops, the Museum implements a rich program of actions, events and collaborations that make it now an important cultural institution of Crete, but also Myrtia, which hosts it, an attractive tourist destination. Read less

Oikologikos Kosmos SA (trade name "Greekferries Club") is an incoming travel agency, founded in 1995 and headquartered in Heraklion, Crete. The company specializes in online ferry bookings and ticket issuance through the websites greekferries.gr, ferries-booking.com, greece-ferries.com & ferries-greece.com and cooperates with more than 40 ferry companies operating on both domestic and international lines. Amongst others, the company has created the affiliate marketing program Greece-Unlimited.com offering cooperations to travel professionals as well as individual travel bloggers, and the customer reward program Bonuspermile.gr with over 330.000 members to date. The company's goal is to combine continuous technological advancement and enrichment of its travel services along with quick, precise and customer-friendly support. Read less

“Oliving” is about a project, offers olive oil outdoor experience for small private groups. For most of us the olive tree and olive oil is connected with ancient Greek myths, biblical history, the Olympic games and Mediterranean Diet. For us, olive oil is a unique experience that captures all senses. 

"Oliving" olive oil tasting, takes place beside ancient olive trees, in a field uninterrupted by human presence for centuries, just 8km from Rethymno city. 

The experience includes an all around visit of history and taste of olive oil in Crete, from Minoan to our days. Tasting, learning, recognizing the aromas, perfumes tastes of the stories that exist in different olive oils one not only tastes the juice of an ancient life form but also the geography of the area of where the tree is.

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Perachori Boutique Studios is a complex of three (3) open type rooms - studios located in the square in Perachori, in the historic village of Anogia Mylopotamos. Stone and wood are dominant materials, with handmade additions to give a special and warm feeling to the visitor. Its location allows the visitor to get in touch with the wider area of ??the mountain range of Psiloritis and to interact with the local community. Read less

The hospitable family hotel Polydoros is in the heart of Paleochora, south Of Chania. It has 7 apartments which can accommodate up to 5 people and is ideal for family vacations, offering comfortable accommodation and relaxation. The place where it is located offers guests the opportunity to explore the nearby beaches and enjoy the Cretan landscape through walks and excursions in nature. In the courtyard of the hotel there is a wine bar which offers wines exclusively from local Cretan varieties, thus promoting local production. Read less

Psiloritis UNESCO Global Geopark is an excellent geotourism destination that offers experiences for recreation and education. High mountaintops such as Timios Stavros (2456m.) alternate with valleys, plateaus, gorges, forests, and caves creating unique
landscapes. A variety of birds of prey, amphibians and bats are protected in the Nature 2000 Areas and Wildlife Refuges, while the rich flora offers the opportunity of observing rare and endemic species.

The coexistence of landscape and man is unique. The stone is transformed into a mitato (shepherd’s mountain- shelter), a threshing floor and a dry-stone wall to serve a sustainable relationship from the ancient times to the present day. The area of the Geopark includes many important archaeological sites and monuments from the Minoan period to modern times that are worth visiting such as Idaion Antro, ancient Eleftherna and the Arkadi Monastery. The visitor can discover Psiloritis of every season through mountain skiing routes, hikes and walks in villages with workshops of traditional arts, local food and local festivals.

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The Regional Development Company of Crete S.A. (P.AN.ETAI.K.) was founded in 2003 under the name Anaptixiaki Chania SA in order to take over the management of the then Regional Market of Chania and the building complex in Agyia. The activities of P.AN.ETAI.K. SA are enriched every year with the planning of actions, the implementation of studies, programming contracts and the implementation of projects through National / European programs, programming contracts, etc. Read less

In Sisarcha, a small village at the foothills of Psiloritis, near Anogeia, within the Milopotamos’s vicinity, this old stone-built coffee house, which was built stone-by-stone and established by my grandfather Andreas Aerakis (a.k.a. Ninandreas) and my grandmother Eleni Kouvidi, was the nascence of our family, our life and our record career…
Stelios Aerakis, the eldest son of my grandfather, was raised with the principles of the genuine traditional music of Anogeia and generally of Crete. As far as Cretan music and record industry are concerned, he played the laouto and he cooperated with Nikos Xylouris, Psarantonis, Vasilis Skoulas and many other significant Cretan grand masters of the 20th century. In 1974, he established the first record store in Heraklion, while, at the same time, he was the exclusive authorized representative of Columbia Music Records in Crete. In 1976, he created the “Aerakis-Cretan Music Company” record company which evolved into the “Aerakis-Cretan Musical Workshop” record company, sealing the whole record evolution of Cretan music with the quality and the innovation of that time. Stelios Aerakis along with Michalis Aerakis’s cooperation, who is his brother and my father as well, forged their own path and they created, beyond doubt, a bright name in the field of Cretan music publication and production.
Eventually, deploying his experience and knowledge, Michalis Aerakis created the highly recognized “Seistron Music Editions” in 2001, combining different discrete elements, old and new, words and notes, music and books. He did his part in building the glorious castle of our tradition. Consequently, in my turn, I picked up the torch passed to me from my family, and I started taking steps little by little into the field of music record industry, in the hope of elevating it to new heights.
Preserving this precious cultural heritage of this field since 2009, I decided to give life back to my grandfather’s coffee house and name it “Rural Record Store”, in order to unite all the experiences I gained as a child and as a teenager, as well as to marry the sensations of the traditional coffee house with the music productions which we have in our track record since 1975. Furthermore, this will be the place where our work will be exhibited and various record and book presentations will be hosted. Also, our guests and visitors will have the opportunity to become familiar with the Cretan music and hospitality through our vivid tradition and the flavors of the seasonal local viands, so that the real core of Cretan lifestyle will be revealed to them.     
Future is something from the past.
 

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