By Maud Vidal-Naquet (text) and Laurent Fabre (photos) for
Le Figaro Magazine
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More than an island, a mountain range emerging from the sea: this is the first impression Crete gives as its majestic mountains, powdered with snow six months a year, attract the eye when approached by plane or by plane. boat. The island, which stretches like a long comb between the Aegean and the Libyan Sea, is closer to Africa than to Athens. Its strategic position in the heart of the Mediterranean has always made it a coveted stopover: whether for the Venetian galleys, which orchestrated the Levantine trade between East and West, for the English or Italian navies, who watched over the Suez Canal or the Middle East, or today for American aircraft carriers, NATO having a major base in Souda Bay, a dozen kilometers from Chania,the second Cretan city.
Chania, Chania or Hania in Greek, Kydonia in Antiquity, is undoubtedly
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