Hello dear friends!

We are students of fourth, fifth and sixth grade of 47th Primary School of Heraklion.

We live in Crete the biggest island of Greece, in the Mediteranean sea. Heraklion Town is actually the largest town in Crete and serves as the main transportation hub for the island,

with a busy port and an international airport.

Here we speak Greek which is a very difficult language. We have a lot of traditional foods like 'gyros', 'mousakas' and 'gemista'.

The weather is hot and sunny, so we can enjoy the beautiful beaches of our island.

In and near our city there are a lot of attractions and archaelogical

 sites like the Minoan Palace of Knosos, 

Koules Fortress, 

Morosini Lions Fountain, the venetian Loggia (our town hall),

the archaelogical Museum, caves and various monasteries. "Cretaquarium" is also a very interesting place, especially for children.

                      The Christmas boat decoration 

The boat was decorated during Christmas in houses and squares, but later it was replaced by the Christmas tree. It is a tradition of an older era of Greece since our country has historically been a land of sailors. Several decades ago, from almost every house, one or two men of the house (father or son) worked on the ships, to support their family.

The boat symbolizes man's new voyage in life.It is a tradition of the old times of the country and a kind of honor and welcome to sailors, who were returning from their voyages. In recent years, many municipalities have brought back the custom, decorating the squares with ships instead of fir trees.