Chersonissos

The municipality of Hersonissos stretches impressively from the northern shores of central Crete to the crests of the Lasithi Mountains, just a few kilometers from the Nikos Kazantzakis international airport of Heraklion. It includes hamlets with their own special distinctive characteristics and color. Hersonissos is recognized at the most organized tourist destination in Crete. It is known for the high quality of its hotel establishments and its conference facilities, but equally for the natural beauties of its shoreline. Its lovely beaches, night life and mass-tourism are nevertheless only the one side of the Hersonissos coin. The other, less well known, side consists of the lush hinterland, scattered with historical and local monuments of incredible natural beauty. The individual departments of Municipality form a historical and modern environment, a new experience for the visitor, whose material and especially spiritual enjoyment of its acquaintance is never sated. The satisfaction of the most demanding visitors to the Municipality of Hersonissos is an undoubted fact. From the most cosmopolitan international places to the most natural and traditional. Which is why the Municipality of Hersonissos is the genuine expression of Cretan loveliness.