Agios Nikolaos

Agios Nikolaos

Agios Nikolaos is the capital town of the Lassithi Prefecture in east Crete.

Agios Nikolaos is located 65 km east of Heraklion and its airport.

Agios Nikolaos has a cosmopolitan feeling, and there are not just nice restaurants, bars and shopping, but also a lot of history.

In the town there is Lake Voulismeni and even though the myth says that it is bottomless, it has been measured at 64 metres. It is rumoured that when the Germans were being pushed from Crete at the end of WWII, that they pushed their heavy armour tanks into the lake never to be seen again.

The Archaeological Museum of Agios Nikolaos is one of the most important in Crete, and has been in operation since 1969. It houses collections of very important archaeological finds from the whole of Eastern Crete, an area extending from Malia as far as Zakros. These are displayed in chronological order from the Neolithic period (5700- 2800 B.C.) to the end of Roman times (100B.C.-400A.D.). Its showcases are decorated with more than 1500 vases from the third millennium B.C., and copper finds (the most ancient found in Crete).