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 Route from Iraklion airport
Route from Hania airport
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Route from Iraklion airport
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You leave the airport range (1) towards South and the highway. Before the highway bridge, turn right and take the highway to Rethymnon (2) (the sign points to "Iraklion").
A bare hour later you will arrive to the Cape of Scaleta. The highway cuts through the cape's summit in a leftward bend, and the rocks on both sides form a gate (3).
Immediately afterwards opens on the right hand side the view down to the bay of Rethymnon with it's hotel suburbs and the 15 kms distant city with it's port and the fortress (4).
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A descent follows and then a rightward bend. At it's end, a parking in front of a taverna opens on the highway's right hand side, and it continues into a highway exit.
The exit turns off downhill on the right hand side, and then you turn immediately left and underpass the highway. On the other side of the bridge turn right, follow the ascent and enter the side-lane which runs parallel to the highway.
After passing the branch-off to Prinos and two hotels, you will come to a point where two smaller roads from left and from diagonally left meet the side-lane. The first sign pointing to the villas stands by the corner (5).
Turn left and follow the ascending road through some bends until you find the second sign pointing to the villas: It marks the entrance to the drive.
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Route from Hania airport
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You leave the airport range (1), pass the gas station and after approx. 300 meters turn left. After another 1,700 meters turn right and on the road to Hania pass the villages of Aroni (2) and Pithari (3).
By the exit of Pithari, the road ascends and then forks. Here you leave the road to Hania and take the left branch to Souda and Rethymnon.
After a short way the view opens down to the bay. The road winds down the slope and finally arrives few meters above sea level.
You enter Souda and continue to the traffic lights (4). Here you first turn right, and after a short distance turn left to enter the wide road to the highway.
After crossing under the highway, turn left (5) and enter the highway in the direction of Rethymnon. The highway then changes into a two-lane motorway leading you to the suburbs of Rethymnon (6).
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From here, the highway has four lanes and after an underpass ascends to surround the city of Rethymnon in a wide curve. Down on the left you can see the town, the port, and the fortress (7). Finally the highway descends again, and short before a junction becomes two-laned.
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After that junction the motorway runs mostly flat and passes some bridges. In this section it is framed by crash barriers. A very long straight section follows. Please slow down as you will have to find the exit to Prinos (8): The sign is rather small.
After leaving the motor highway, you turn left into the parallel road. Here you will immediately find the first sign pointing to the villas, on the right hand side.
Turn right and follow the ascending road through some bends until you find the second sign pointing to the villas: It marks the entrance to the drive.
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