Sitia ☼

Anoula’s travel notebook.
Sitia is the town of my heart, mostly because this is the place where I spent most of the time of my Cretan Year. Sitia was the place where I lived and I can’t be totally impartial while I’m talking about it. Sitia revealed itself to me day after day…
With 9000 inhabitants, Sitia is built on a hill around a pretty little harbor. The road to go to Sitia is tortuous and the town looks like a quiet end of the world. In the Summer, the tourists invasion is weaker in Sitia than in the West of the Island of Crete, because the old road network is less developped in this part of the island, even if changes have come since the airport of Sitia has been enlarged and year after year, there are more and more low cost charters landing on it, in a way, it’s good for the local economy, we can only hope people from Sitia will be careful not to poison their town with unreasonable tourism.
It’s good to walk around the harbor of Sitia and on the promenade, where you can sit on a coffee shop terrasse to drink an iced coffee and play backgammon. It’s good to lose yourself on the top of the town hill which you can reach through pretty steps streets and once there to admire the view on the sea.
It’s good to have a swim on its long beach, long enough to avoid crowded places, just a little notice: deck chairs on all the beaches in Crete are not free, even if you have the impression that nobody is taking care of them.
I loved this town and I invite you to discover it, not too fast, take the time to taste its peaceful rythm which is part of Cretans’ secret of longevity.
Anoula.

Sitia en Crète

Sitia en Crète

Sitia en Crète