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Our home is situated in the peaceful village of Apomarma ideal for anyone who seeks to explore Cretan nature and the local rural lifestyle. In the village, you can find a traditional day-long cafe with delicius snacks. Our village is also famous for its Unesco registered historic Byzantine church. At the nearby village of Gergeri there is a supermarket, ATM and pharmacy and at the town of Moires you can find a hypermarket, ATMs, many shops and services.
The area offers numerous paths to follow and unique hikes to experience the Cretan landscape and its rich flora and fauna such as the famous Zaros Lake, Rouvas Gorge and forest. At about 4 km from our house you can walk to the Nymphs waterfalls.
Our home is also located close to the famous archaeological sites of Faistos and Gortina. At about 35-50 km of distance, you can reach some of the famous locations in the South of Herakleion such as Matala and Agiofaragko beaches.
The history of our village and our house:
The settlement of Apomarma has its roots in Minoan Crete. From the sources of the waters of the mountain Rouvas, which bears its ancient name, come the gurgling waters that Minos wanted to transport to Faistos to supply them as his summer palace. The workers who had camped at the construction site of the present-day Settlement 'Apomarma' and who were building the aqueduct from Rouvas to Phaistos, in the course of the project, the Phaistos marbles ran out and the construction site ordered a supply of marbles, but by the time the new shipment of marbles arrived to continue the project, the workers had already established a small settlement, not very different from the present-day settlement of Apomarma.Essentially the workers left marble "Apomarma", this as a fact gave the name over the years to the present Settlement. It is worth mentioning that in the area of the Settlement there are ancient remains of the aforementioned Minoan aqueduct. Over the centuries, residents from the surrounding villages began to cultivate the farms they had, as well as the pastures in the wider area. This led to the emergence of the settlement.
But at the same time the trade route was of great interest for the transport of goods from the north to the south and vice versa and the need to serve the travellers to and from the city of Heraklion because of the "difficult passage", (the plain between mountains to the upper root and from there to the [Hani tou Yatraki] through the wild steep morphology and the dangers that passers-by ran from bandits, resulted in the creation of inns known as Hania. Of all these Hania the most famous for the time was the Hani of Yatraki. This was where the exchange of mail bags used to take place and the changing of guards for convicts being transferred from county to county. The "Yatraki's Hani", served as a magistrate's inn and animal stable. Today one can see the lodge from the [Yatraki's Hani ] in its restored form, on the main street, which is the square of the settlement and the animal keeper's stable where the lodging area is located.

• Gergeri Village 4 km or 8’ drive
• Moires town 14 km or 17’ drive
• Nymphs waterfalls 4 km or 10 minutes drive
• Zaros Lake 13 km or 20’
• Faistos Minoan Archeological site 21km or 23’ drive
• Gortyna Archeological site 12km or 12’ drive
• Matala beach 38 km or 35’ drive
• Agiofaragko beach 37 km or 56’drive
• Heraklion International airport 38km or 35’
• Heraklion city center 34 km or 33’ drive