AGIA PELAGIA
Agia Pelagia (Santa Pelagia) is a popular seaside resort 23 km northwest of Crete's capital, the city of Heraklion. Its name comes from the homonymous church, in the Monastery of the Sabbatians.
Some 50 years ago, Agia Pelagia was a tiny fishing village and a place for the residents of nearby Achlada village to grow their crops. Today, the village, built at the centre of a picturesque amphitheatric bay, has been transformed into a bustling tourist resort featuring hotels, traditional seaside tavernas, cafes, bars, internet cafés, cars rental, ATMs, souvenir shops.
For adventure lovers there are lots of options available like hiking, mountain bicycling, sea bicycling, canoeing, water skiing, jet skiing, snorkelling, fishing, scuba diving etc.
Surrounded by mountains and hills, Agia Pelagia Bay area lies right in the middle of Crete (which makes it easy to be used as a base for tours and excursions around the island).
The landscape is a complex of 8 wind – protected, formidable, sandy coves named Mades, Vlychada, Lygaria, Agia Pelagia, Fylakes, Kladissos, Psaromoura and Mononaftis.
The Bay area also includes several smaller, hidden beaches, protected coves, and tiny coastline details often unreachable other than by boat.
It is exceedingly difficult to describe in words the extravagant, Caribbean-like landscape. Always calm, tropical aquamarine waters, palm trees, golden sand, smooth rocky platforms laying into the shallow waters, all what you will discover coming to the GET SYMPOSIUM !