Explore the Palace of Malia

The ancient Palace of Malia, which dates to 1,900 BCE, is one of Greece's crowning achievements. Malia, which is located on almost 7,500 hectares of productive land, is the third-largest Minoan palace in Greece. Even though it is now fully in ruins, exploring the palace is still among the most well-liked activities in Greece.

There are a variety of exhibition halls here as well as photographic galleries and scale models of how the complex would have looked in days gone by. Once at the ruins, one can note a clearly mapped plan of how the palace one stood- a central courtyard surrounded by storage rooms, a theatre and a crypt to the east, and so on. Archaeological excavations have yielded some invaluable treasures from the site as well, which are now housed across Greece’s many museums. Look out for some of its signature pieces such as the Kernos Stone which is a disk with 24 holes in it.

Location: North Coast of Crete, East of Heraklion
Entry fee: 6 € per person