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Below are a few maps of Crete and areas of Crete.
To open a map, click on the thumbnails . The images will open in
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- Map of West Crete 104Kb
Same as above a little smaller
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- Map of Central Crete 334Kb
A little large and not that easy to read, this map was copied from
the tourist guide "Crete" from Adams Editions
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- Map of Central Crete 168Kb
Same as above, still a large file but not that easy to view
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- Map of Eastern Crete 244Kb
Same source as above
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- Map of Eastern Crete 100Kb
Same source as above
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- Map of Crete 392Kb
Same source as above, this is OK if you want to have a look at Crete as a whole
but frankly, you are better off buying a small map of Crete. If you rent a
car these will be provided free anyway.
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- Map of the White Mountains 354Kb
This is part of a map called "Trekking and Road Map" mentioned
below. It was scanned from a well-used map so there are unfortunately
fold lines in some places.
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- City centre Rethymnon 168Kb
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- Venetian map of Crete 173Kb
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Recommended maps
If you want to explore Crete and get away from the beaten track,
you will want to buy a good map. Below are the ones we recommend
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Western
Crete (Maps of Crete) and Eastern
Crete (Maps of Crete) are
two 100.000 maps by harms verlag. Excellent for driving
and usable for walks. My favourite maps even
if their scale makes them a little inapproriate as walking maps.
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The Greek publisher Anavasi has recently (May 2006) published
a few good 1:25.000 maps of Crete. Three of them cover the region
from Sougia (East Selinou) to Sfakia and include most of the White
Mountains. These maps are a big improvement on what we had before
(including the Greek military maps) and are accurate to use with
a GPS but they could have been much better if they had included
more of the old paths. They somewhat leave me with the impression
that someone started doing a great job but had to finish it in
a hurry.
The maps are cheap to buy and solidly made (you get the sense
that they will not tear after the first few times you use them)
and can be bought in good bookshops in Crete.
They also have a CD for PC combining the 3 maps. It has a map viewer displaying coordinates and altitude at any point of the map. Comprises three maps on a scale of 1:25.000 (Pachnes, Sfakia and Gigilos - Samaria). Includes files ready to import in TopoView, Pathaway, TTQV and OziExplorer.
Older versions didn't work on Vwindows Vista but the new releases do. |
 
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Map
of Western Crete (Maps of Greek Islands) and Map
of Eastern Crete (Maps of Greek Islands) by
Road Editions are also good maps and may be slightly more up-to-date
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Crete:
Hiking Mappublished by
freytag & berndt is a 1/50.000 hiking
map of Crete. A big drawback though: it only covers five
areas of Crete and only one in West Crete, around the National
park of Samaria. So it is a good map but only useful if you are
planning to walk exactly in the areas covered (the other areas
covered are Lassithi, Orno Thriptis, Idi and Asterousia).
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