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Has anyone used Odeon travel?

I am thinking of booking a day trip from Hereklion to Knossos and lassithi plateau through them.

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CRETE I booked on-line two trips with this…

I booked on-line two trips with this agency during my stay in Crete, in May 2023. The first one from Chania to Knossos: they picked me up in front of my hotel, the trip was very pleasant and interesting with our guide Stella who did great job in tree languages: english, german and greek, paying special attention to every single participant. In the evening they brought me back to my hotel. It was excellent! The second one from Chania to Samaria Gorge: they picked me up and brought me back to my hotel, as well, the trip was very well organized, our guide Dimitris was very careful and discrete, taking care of all of us all the time, but at the same time letting us enjoy this amazing place. The last but not least, I would like to thank to Mr. Nikos Tsiskakis for his promt replies and his professionality. I would highly recomend this agency!

Date of experience : May 13, 2023

Daytrip to Knossos

I booked a trip to Knossos/ Iraklio 19.06,everything went smoothly.Good information ahead,precise pick-up at hotel and comfortable bus.Our guide,Mrs.Katarina,was very knowledgeable and nice.I was very impressed by her fluency in both English and especially German.All in all a great day out,and an interesting look into the Minoan culture.

Date of experience : July 20, 2022

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Dear Mrs. Myrseth , thank you very much for your warm feedback ! Wishing you all the best, we remain at your disposal ! With our kindest regards , Alfa Odeon Travel Team

Excellent service

I booked two tours in Crete with this company - the Knossos Palace and Heraklion day trip, and the Spinalonga trip. The communication I received from Nikos was prompt, useful and friendly, and he helped me to book these two trips into a very limited time window with a range of possible dates unlike other companies I had tried! He remained in contact prior to my trips, and provided an excellent service. The trips themselves were very reasonably priced (cheaper than other agencies), with prompt pick-up, clean coaches and excellent guides. I will definitely use Alfa Odeon holidays on my next trip to Crete!

Date of experience : November 10, 2021

Dear Mrs. Katherine thank you very much for your warm feedback ! Your review is extremely important to us in order to upgrade our services in the best way ! Looking forward to seeing you again soon ... With our best wishes & regards Alfa Odeon Holidays!

Excellent *****

I booked a tour with Alpha Odeon to Heraklion and Knossos. Lots of help from Kostis he even sent a map to where we were being picked up plus reminder for trip and the price was cheaper than anywhere else I’d looked . Only wish I’d booked our other trip with this company too and not our travel agent . 10/10 Kostis and a very big recommendation for you 😊

Date of experience : May 31, 2022

Dear Mrs. Clarke , thank you very much for your positive feedback and your warm comments!! It was a pleasure to contact with you!! we are looking forward to helping you in the near future again!! With my kindest regards , Kostis Chliaoutakis

A great tour for a fun and different day

We went on a trip to the Elafonisi beach from Chania in August and everything went smooth and great. The trip was well planned, we first stopped for a little break at Cave of Agia Sofia for 30min in the morning and then when we were coming back to Chania, we stopped for a lunch in a nice little village. The guide was very nice and attentive, explained everything in detail and in an interesting way, and the driver also did a good job with smooth and fast driving. 10/10

Date of experience : November 07, 2021

Dear Mrs. Polina thank you very much for your warm feedback and all your assistance ! Looking forward to seeing you again soon ... Best regards Alfa Odeon Holidays !

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Alfa ODEON Travel for more than 20 years serves travelers visiting Crete and Greece. We organize scheduled sightseeing excursions, trip cruises, tailor made tours and transfers.

Our aim is to make your holiday in Greece a memorable experience by providing you the very best suggestions for sightseeing tours, cruises, private transfers, car hire, taxi transfer, accommodation and island hoping by ferry or by plane. Alfa Odeon Holidays has the expertise and all the facilities to provide you with your very best solutions bearing always in mind the clients specific needs, as we have vast experience in the field of incoming tourism.

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Archaeologists Unearth 2,000-Year-Old Odeon in Crete

The dig at the remote site is the first in more than 50 years

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Archaeologists have found a Roman-era odeon in Lissos , an ancient city on the Greek island of Crete . The newly uncovered structure likely dates back to the first century C.E.

The archaeological dig at the site is the first in 62 yeas. The ruins of Lissos are quite remote, which makes regular maintenance and research difficult. The site is only reachable by boat, or via an hours-long hike from the nearby town of Sougia.

“The discovery of a public function building at a central point of the ancient city, and in proximity to the famous temple to Asclepius , adds new data to the archaeological and historical horizon of the area,” says the Greek Ministry of Culture and Sports in a statement , per Google Translate.

Leading the excavation was Katerina Tzanakaki , deputy head of the department of prehistoric and classical antiquities and museums at the Ephorate of Antiquities of Chania.

Odeons were once “used for lectures, literary and musical contests or theatrical performances,” Tzanakaki tells LiveScience ’s Kristina Killgrove. They were smaller than ancient amphitheaters; they were also often covered by roofs for acoustic reasons, while amphitheaters typically were open-air.

The researchers don’t know for sure what the structure was used for. Tzanakaki says that it could have been a bouleuterion , or a city council building, as it was close to the city center.

The fact that “it was designed and used as a covered theater does not preclude secondary use as a council house,” Jane Francis , a classical archaeologist at Concordia University, and her husband George W. Harrison , a classical archaeologist at Carleton University, tell LiveScience in an email.

Whatever its use, the structure is a rare find, they add. “There aren’t many well-preserved theaters on Crete and even fewer bouleuteria .”

The Ministry of Culture and Sports ordered the new archaeological work in part to repair and preserve Lissos’ other ruins, which were uncovered in the 1950s, per the Greek Reporter ’s Tasos Kokkinidis.

The ancient city already boasts an impressive collection of sites. Previous digs in the area uncovered a temple to the Greek god Asclepius, a Greco-Roman cemetery with Byzantine temples, Roman baths and Christian churches.

Lissos was likely an important site along “an important stop on Mediterranean trade routes,” according to LiveScience . Now, the discovery of the odeon provides further evidence that the town was prosperous.

Researchers say a powerful earthquake hit in the fourth century, causing extensive damage to the odeon and other nearby sites.

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Rare ancient odeon discovered at remote archaeological site in Crete

Archaeologists in Crete have discovered an ancient Roman odeon that might have been used for events such as lectures, musical contests and city council meetings.

Tucked into a mountain-ringed cove in southwest Crete are the ruins of Lissos, an ancient town whose archaeological remains are accessible only by sea or a long hike. Because of its isolation, Lissos had not been investigated by archaeologists for several decades. New work at Lissos, though, has uncovered an odeon, similar to a modern auditorium and indicative of the prosperity of the town.

Previous research showed that Lissos was inhabited long before its name made it into history books in the fourth century B.C. Its location across the Mediterranean Sea from Cyrene, a major ancient Greek city in present-day Libya, likely meant that Lissos was an important stop on Mediterranean trade routes. Structures from various time periods at Lissos are relatively well preserved, including a unique temple to Asclepius, the ancient Greek god of medicine; a residential area; an impressive cemetery with two-story tombs; Roman baths; and Christian churches. Archaeologists have now added an odeon to this list of structures following the first excavation at Lissos in more than half a century.

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Katerina Tzanakaki , deputy head of the Department of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities and Museums at the Ephorate of Antiquities of Chania, directed the new project and told Live Science in an email that odeons "were used for lectures, literary and musical contests or theatrical performances." 

In the first phase of the odeon's excavation, Tzanakaki and her team found part of the stage, 14 rows of seats and two vaulted side chambers. The odeon dates to the Roman period, roughly the first to fourth centuries A.D., a time when the sanctuary to Asclepius at Lissos was transformed into a political center with a new mosaic floor and portraits of the Roman emperors Tiberius and Drusus. 

Unfortunately, the odeon was heavily damaged in antiquity by large falling boulders, likely as the result of a powerful earthquake in A.D. 365. Jane Francis , a classical archaeologist at Concordia University in Montreal who was not involved in this project, explained in an email to Live Science that "a tsunami with destructive force as far away as Alexandria, Egypt, was associated with the earthquake. The whole site of Lissos was uplifted by several meters, so the town would have been larger than today and the theatre thus closer to the coast."

As the odeon was adjacent to the city center, Tzanakaki thinks it also might have operated as a bouleuterion, a building for meetings of the city council. Francis and her husband, George W. Harrison , a classical archaeologist at Carleton University in Ottawa, told Live Science by email that the size and date of the building mean that it was most likely an odeon, but the fact that "it was designed and used as a covered theatre does not preclude secondary use as a council house."

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While the precise definition of the newly uncovered building may have to wait for future work, "the discovery of a public service building at a central point of the ancient city, near the temple to Asclepius, adds new information to the archaeological and historical horizon of the area," according to a translated statement from the Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sports. Francis and Harrison agree that the discovery is rare. "There aren't many well-preserved theatres on Crete and even fewer bouleuteria," they said.

Future work will help Tzanakaki determine whether there was an outside wall supporting the odeon, and that finding will influence the restoration work. In the meantime, the archaeological site of Lissos remains open to the public; it is accessible by a short boat trip or a two-hour hike from the nearby town of Sougia.

Kristina Killgrove is an archaeologist with specialties in ancient human skeletons and science communication. Her academic research has appeared in numerous scientific journals, while her news stories and essays have been published in venues such as Forbes, Mental Floss and Smithsonian. Kristina earned a doctorate in anthropology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and also holds bachelor's and master's degrees in classical archaeology.

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