Amazonas Park Crete

Amazonas Park Crete is a zoo in Agios Nikolaos, Lasithi, Crete. Amazonas Park Crete is situated nearby to the village Limnes, as well as near the town Neapoli.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Dreros and Metropolitan Church of Megali Panagia.

Dreros

Archaeological site

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Dreros, also Driros, near Neapoli in the regional unit of Lasithi, Crete, is a post-Minoan archaeological site, 16 km northwest of Agios Nikolaos. Known only by a chance remark of the 9th-century Byzantine grammarian Theognostus, archaeology of the site shows Dreros to have been initially colonised by mainland Greeks in the early Archaic Period about the same time as Lato and Prinias. Dreros is situated 1¼ km south of Amazonas Park Crete.

Metropolitan Church of Megali Panagia

Church

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Metropolitan Church of Megali Panagia is situated 2½ km southwest of Amazonas Park Crete.

Kremasta Monastery

Monastery

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Kremasta Monastery is situated 3½ km southwest of Amazonas Park Crete.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Limnes and Neapoli.

Limnes

Village

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Limnes is a traditional Cretan small village in Lasithi, Crete, Greece, located 10 km from Agios Nikolaos. It is surrounded by olive trees and mountains. Limnes is situated 2½ km south of Amazonas Park Crete.

Neapoli

Town

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Neapoli is a small town and a former municipality in Lasithi, eastern Crete, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform, it has been treated as a municipal unit of Agios Nikolaos. Neapoli is situated 2½ km southwest of Amazonas Park Crete.