The prefecture of Rethimno with capital Rethimno in the center of Crete is famous for it’s great tourism development the last years for it’s natural beauty and it’s traditional character which remains unalterable and they make up an attractive polo gravity for tourism native or foreign.

The city of Rethimno is the unique city of Crete, which keeps invariable her middle age character. The picturesque villages of Rethimno in Psiloriti are still living alive with traditional ways and rhythms composing in a way a type of her lively museums open for visitors every year. The glory beaches the forests the monasteries and the monuments of Venetian domination are giving in this registration q unique and picturesque character.

Rethimno and particular the old city is a monumental museum. All these elements attract the visitor. The Foretza castle gives it’s own physiognomy. The Byzantine and Benetian churches near to minarets and Tourkish springs, the old houses with kiosks, the lanes and the simultaneous streets of the new city, all together compound a mosaic which testimony the history of the city. 

To the oriental side of Rethimno the big hotels, the restaurants
and the clubs don’t live none to complain that something is missing from there.