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The Printing Museum is located in Chania, just outside the town, in Craft Park Souda Bay and a vision of life founder,Yannis Gieredaki, founder and publisher of the journal "Haniotika Nea".
The Printing Museum is located in Chania, just outside the town, in Craft Park Souda Bay and a vision of life founder,Yannis Gieredaki, founder and publisher of the journal “Haniotika Nea”. The Foundation is unique in its kind throughout Greece.
The museum’s opening in 2005. The collection contains printing presses and other machines and tools and objects which show the development of typography from the birth until today. Rare books and newspapers as well as valuable lithographs traveling the visitor the art of typography.
In April 2012 the museum has been extended to new wing by adding to the collection of exhibits concerning the evolution of graphic arts and two valuable reports related to the development of printing and the history of writing.
During the course of the visits small and large have the opportunity to print the old printing presses.
In 2012 the acquaintance with the greatest printer-Antonis Papandonopoulos and the acquisition of two valuable reports on the history of literacy and the development of printing and graphic arts led to add a new wing, with which the printing Museum has doubled in size and has been enriched with new exhibits.
Significant and continuous is the role of donors of Museum printing with the offer machinery, objects and versions.
Agios Nikolaos is the capital of the Lasithi prefecture, and is situated on the west side of the Mirabello gulf. Its name came from the small church that is located in Agios Nikolaos’ bay.
The beach of Agia Roumeli with the white pebbles expands on the edge of the village which goes by the same name, on the exit of the Canyon of Samaria.-On the other hand, if you are looking for something more isolated, follow the E4 path east for 30 minutes up until you reach Agios Pavlos.
740 metres up on the north face of Mount Psiloritis in prefecture of Rethymno lies proudly Anogia. A village with a history that is powerful and tragic at the same time. Burned by the Turks in 1822 and by the Germans in 1944,this village has a heroic story to tell.
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