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Plakias / Re: Seafront work
« on: February 01, 2023, 12:36:02 PM »
Copy and paste: "Installation of new and bigger waterpipes.....Due to more and more buildings and more and more tourism more water is needed....A new pipe is brought from Kourtalioti gorge via the irrigation chanel road to supply Plakias with more water."

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Where to eat...or not! / Re: Lysseos
« on: October 26, 2022, 09:12:23 AM »
Yes, hard to imagine Plakias without them. I heard that Xristos is also closing at the end of the season.
Can anyone confirm this?

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Plakias / Re: Save Paligremnos Cliff
« on: May 16, 2022, 09:25:25 AM »
"On May 15, 2022 about 800 people gather around the PALIGREMNOS rock, forming a huge line of protest and stating their concern of destruction of a natural habitat. The movement is largely supported by petitions and declarations, against the building of a hotel on the sacred nature monument of Paligremnos, a symbol of the municipity of PLAKIAS in South Crete.
So far untouched, now even here investors try to gain grounds."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxMiDFmuZSY

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Plakias / Re: Save Paligremnos Cliff
« on: May 14, 2022, 03:16:46 PM »
In the last few days we have been watching in shock as earthmoving machines irreparably damage the emblematic landmark of Plakias, Paligremnos, in order to build a hotel. An investment that since 2019, when it became known, has been opposed by the local community, the local commercial and professional associations, the local government, the Technical Chamber and the Architects' Association of Rethymnon, as well as the Museum of Natural History of the University of Crete and the Hellenic Society for Environment and Culture.
The impressive Paligremnos with its vertical, mirror-like surface, which shows a lot of geological and tectonic evidence of the formation of the fault that continues underwater, attracts not only a large number of tourists, but also students of geological schools, climbers and divers from all over the world.


This site, up to the tip of the peninsula, is one of the most important geological sites in Crete, and has been included in the Atlas of Geological Monuments of the Aegean, and in the guide to geology in Crete. In addition, it is of great historical and cultural importance as it is associated with mining activities and historical events in the wider region, and has remarkable ecological characteristics.


This character and the value of Paligremnos is underlined and legislated by the SPHOP of the district of Finikas, which has not yet been established, as well as by many studies, texts and recommendations from a number of institutions such as the Museum of Natural History, the Hellenic Society for Environment and Culture, the Technical Chamber of Greece, the Association of Architects of Rethymnon, etc., which propose the declaration of Paligremnos as a protected landscape-monument.


The state, which according to the Constitution has the obligation to take special care of the preventive and repressive measures within the framework of the principle of sustainability, in this particular case has failed to take care. The massive opposition of local stakeholders and the negative opinions on the project did not deter anyone, the negative opinion of the Council of Architecture of the P.E. Rethymnon was overridden by the positive opinion of the central Council of Architecture in Athens.


The message of the state once again is clear: Nature, monuments, cultural heritage, everything is offered as a gift to investors. According to the negative report of the Museum of Natural History on the location of the investment, the underground structures and the accompanying works, apart from altering the image of the area, will contribute to the erosion of the slopes and sooner or later will require works to shore up the rocks and protect the area from possible collapses with
resulting in further damage to the landscape and the value of the geological monument.

From the Municipality of Ag. Vassiliou, an effort is being made to stop even now the hubris and crime that is taking place in the area.


According to Article 24 of the Greek Constitution, the protection of the natural and cultural environment is an obligation and right of everyone. We have an obligation and a right to defend Paligremno now, when it needs us all. A long and difficult struggle begins. On Sunday 15-5-22 all the roads of Crete lead to Plakias to build an embrace and shield of protection for this unique place. At 11am, let us all be there to declare our decision to defend Paligremno.
MOVEMENT FOR THE PROTECTION OF PALIGREMNOS



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Plakias / Save Paligremnos Cliff
« on: May 12, 2022, 09:40:08 AM »
Dear community,
there is an online-petition to stop the construction-works on the top of the paligremnos cliff.
Maybe it can help a little bit to prevent the disastrous devastation of this beautiful area.
https://www.change.org/p/save-paligremnos-in-plakias-crete-greece/psf/promote_or_share?guest=new&short_display_name=Alfred&recruiter=1016892488&source_location=corgi

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Where to eat...or not! / Re: Lysseos
« on: August 24, 2021, 10:29:03 AM »
Lysseos was good as ever in the last decades, but it wasn't really well frequented. Maybe you all should give it a try if not done yet.

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Plakias / Re: Please NO
« on: July 31, 2019, 09:26:43 AM »
I've got it! Thank you, Colin and Sandra!
They are really horrible. I can't understand why it is legal to spoil the place for the pleasure of a few ...

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Plakias / Re: Major building work underway at far end!!
« on: July 30, 2019, 02:45:49 PM »
I thougt that the building of massive constructions like these are forbidden in this area.

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Plakias / Re: Please NO
« on: July 30, 2019, 02:43:43 PM »
Would you be so kind ti explain what "a pair of bloody ringos that are been towed the full width of the bay from the jetty to the far end" means?

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Plakias / Re: Slow painful death
« on: July 27, 2019, 06:57:09 PM »

We are regulars to Plakias since 25 years and this forum has been the source of many really useful information, enlighting  discussions and fun. Thanks for that! On the other hand it seems as if the spreading of the stories of the unique beauty of the place made it so popular, that some of its most precious facettes are already gone or in danger to be lost by the masses of us people to come here. We are still in love with Plakias but sometimes it might  be better not to shout it out to loud. ;-)

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Plakias / Re: Souda beach no longer naturist
« on: July 27, 2019, 06:56:36 PM »
I don‘t remember Souda as clothing optional. Is Microamoudi also lost for the Naturists?

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Plakias / Re: Any Plakias Updates?
« on: February 09, 2018, 12:13:08 PM »
Thank you! Does anybody know what the huge construction behind the "Resort" is?

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Plakias / Re: Any Plakias Updates?
« on: February 05, 2018, 02:57:50 PM »
"The main car park outside Kri Kri is now a full scale building site" does that mean that something is built on the main parking lot? Or ist it just a temporary place to park the machines and material?

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Forum and Website discussion / Re: Strange mails via board@plakias.co.uk
« on: November 30, 2017, 03:20:50 PM »
Thank you!

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