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TOPLINE TRAVEL: Crete, the chic and the cheap
Empire line Once part of the ancient world (Knossos is often described as Europe’s oldest Bronze Age city), Crete is the largest of the Greek islands and the fifth largest in the Med. It was successively part of the Roman Empire, the Byzantine Empire, …