Lasithi Plateau villages
Oropedio Lasithiou, Crete
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Altitude
830 m
Population
1,500
Region
east
Era
venetian
The Lasithi Plateau at 830 meters altitude is an ancient agricultural plain in the Dikti mountains, once famous for thousands of white-sailed windmills. Today a cluster of traditional villages farm the fertile enclosed plain.
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