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| One of the most beautiful areas
in Crete. It is a green, fertile valley (817 m. altitude),
covering an extension of 25,000 sq. km. full of cultivation of potatoes, garden and fruit products and almond - trees. The scenery's beauty is completed with the 10,000 windmills which are scattered here for the area's watering. Tzermiadon, is the capital of Lasithi province. It is the biggest of all the villages that encircle the plain of Lasithi, this quite unique, green carpet hemmed in on all sides by the Lasithi mountains the range of Dikti. . Excavations at Diktaion Andron cave, at Trapeza cave, at Karfi and Plati, indicate that the area has been inhabited ever since the Neolithic Period. Later in the years, it was part of the ancient city of Littos which thrived. During the Cretan fight for liberty, during the Venetian Rule and Turkish Occupation, Lassithi plateau provided refuge to the persecuted fighters, a fact which forced the Venetians, in 1263, to forbid all establishment and cultivation in the area. In the surrounding coutryside there are several caves of archaeological interest, one of which is the Trapeza cave, east of the village at a height of 90 metres above the plain. |
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