Lasithi Plateau villages

Lasithi Plateau villages

Oropedio Lasithiou, Crete
All villagesVenetian era

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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