0Itanos & Erimoupolis Plajları

Ita­nos beach is in the far north east of Cre­te beyond Sitea. Ita­nos is actu­ally 3 beac­hes and is also the same loca­ti­on as the ruins of the anci­ent town of Ita­nos. Ita­nos is just north of the much busi­er palm beach at Vai.

Ita­nos usu­ally has a num­ber of peop­le the­re but it does­n­’t get espe­ci­ally busy so it’s per­fect for peop­le who like a peace­ful beach. Yol, and the infor­mal car­park at the end of it, lead to the midd­le of the 3 beac­hes which is the smal­lest, burası neredeyse hiç kumsal değil. The lar­gest beach, also kno­wn as Eri­mo­upo­lis beach is imme­di­ately to the north of the cent­ral beach and is the most popu­lar. The sout­hern beach is a short 250m walk, past the ruins of the anci­ent town. Unli­ke a lot of beac­hes on Cre­te, herşey 3 beac­hes at Ita­nos are sandy, and the water is bea­uti­fully cle­ar. The­re are pic­tu­res of all 3 galeride

I had read in seve­ral pla­ces that the ruins of the anci­ent port are visib­le unde­r­wa­ter at Ita­nos so I took a snor­kel and mask and swam aro­und quite a bit looking but failed to find anyt­hing much. The only indi­ca­ti­on of any anci­ent human pre­sen­ce in the bay are a num­ber of rec­tan­gu­lar sha­ped slabs of sto­ne but you will need to do the rest with your ima­gi­na­ti­on. The ruins on land are howe­ver more inte­res­ting. Whilst they don­’t com­pa­re to some­w­he­re like Knos­sos they have been left alo­ne unal­te­red unli­ke Knossos

The over­he­ad maps make it look like the north beach can be easily acces­sed from the road just north-west of it, but the road the­re is cut into the side of a hill and is quite a bit hig­her than the beach so it would be dif­fi­cult to get to the beach from here, it is much bet­ter to dri­ve to the infor­mal car­park by the cent­ral beach and do the short walk

The­re are no faci­li­ti­es at the beach and no waters­ports or acti­vi­ti­es on offer so if you need toilets or food you will have to tra­vel to access them. The nearest pla­ce with faci­li­ti­es is Vai beach 2.5km to the south.

Itanos Plajları Galerisi & Kalıntılar

Erimoupolis'e yürüyüş haritası (Itanos kuzey) plaj

Ita­nos south beach is a simi­lar length walk but goog­le maps does­n­’t recog­ni­se the paths so it isn­’t sho­wn below. If you move the map slightly you will see the south beach — the walk is almost a mir­ror of the walk to the north

Daha fazla bilgi

I revi­ewed Ita­nos on Tri­pAd­vi­sor geri 2014 and the­re are plenty more infor­ma­ti­ve revi­ews there.