Chania Tourist Guides

11/07/2024

Hello,

We are the licensed tour guides of Greece, and we are protesting against the Ministry of Tourism’s new bill, which is due to be signed into law today.

In Greece, licensed tour guides undergo rigorous training in public guide schools to ensure they provide accurate and engaging information to tourists.

This bill would allow tourists to be guided around some of Greece’s most treasured sites by individuals without a license—in other words, fake guides and unqualified people from anywhere in the world.

We ask that the Ministry of Tourism protect the unique experience for tourists in Greece and take action against illegal tours by unqualified individuals.

We ask that the Ministry of Tourism withdraw this bill.

Can we count on your support? Please sign the petition below

The Ministry of Tourism is recommending to the Parliament for approval a bill which attempts to "modernize" the profession of the tour guide. Among other things, the proposed definition of the tour guide limits his work to closed and enclosed spaces, despite the fact that the history, sights and cul...

29/02/2024

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21/06/2022

🌍 👉 Today is World Music Day! 🎶 🎹 🎶
Indeed, how would this world have been without music? Turn up the volume to your favorite song and welcome summer that officially starts today! 🥳 🤩 ⛱ 👙 🌞
🔎 Clay pyxis depicting a ritual musical scene with a male figure holding a seven-stringed instrument, a lyre or kithara. He has been interpreted as Orpheus, Apollo, or a simple musician. Birds, double axes, and horns of consecration frame the scene. Kalami, 1300-1250 BC. ΑΜCh, Π 2308

👉 Παγκόσμια Ημέρα Μουσικής σήμερα! 🎶 🎹 🎶

Αλήθεια, πώς θα ήταν ο κόσμος μας χωρίς μουσική; Βάλτε δυνατά το αγαπημένο σας τραγούδι και υποδεχτείτε το καλοκαίρι που σήμερα ξεκινάει και επίσημα! 🥳 🤩 ⛱ 👙 🌞

🔎 Πήλινη πυξίδα. Εικονίζεται τελετουργικό μουσικό δρώμενο, με ανδρική μορφή να κρατάει επτάχορδο όργανο, λύρα ή κιθάρα. Ο "κιθαρωδός", ερμηνεύεται ως Ορφέας, Απόλλωνας ή απλός μουσικός. Πτηνά, διπλοί πέλεκεις και κέρατα καθοσιώσεως πλαισιώνουν την παράσταση. Καλάμι, 1300-1250 π.Χ. ΑΜΧ, Π 2308.

🌍 👉 Today is World Music Day! 🎶 🎹 🎶

Indeed, how would this world have been without music? Turn up the volume to your favorite song and welcome summer that officially starts today! 🥳 🤩 ⛱ 👙 🌞

🔎 Clay pyxis depicting a ritual musical scene with a male figure holding a seven-stringed instrument, a lyre or kithara. He has been interpreted as Orpheus, Apollo, or a simple musician. Birds, double axes, and horns of consecration frame the scene. Kalami, 1300-1250 BC. ΑΜCh, Π 2308

19/04/2022

Σωματείο Διπλωματούχων Ξεναγών

14/02/2022

Ερωτευθείτε! (κάθε μέρα!) ❤️ 💘
📷 Σύμπλεγμα ειδωλίων (Έρωτας και Ψυχή), 1ος αι. π.Χ. ΑΜΧ, αρ. ευρ. Π10897

Fall in love! (every day!) ❤️ 💘
📷 Group of figurines (Eros and Psyche), 1st c. BC. AMch, inv. no. Π10897

13/02/2022

Did you know that from 100.000ratings all over the world by www.tasteatlas.com Greece was ranked 2nd best?And that among the most favorite dishes and products, a lot of them originate from Crete?Let us show you around and introduce you to all these delicacies of the island. One more reason to visit Crete!

11/02/2022

The sacrifice of a young girl and of several animals are among the unexpected finds of the ongoing excavation in the ancient Kydonia in Chania on the island of Crete! Some of us, the professional licensed guides, helped sort out the incredible objects. Join us on a walking tour in the old town and let us show you the secrets of our past and present!

https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2022/02/08/preliminary-results-of-the-excavation-on-the-hill-of-kastelli-in-chania/?fbclid=IwAR368YLe3XJGrL-UwKGCF1v0vwKIvcwglJOkQx-VrGxwhukhzBf-YByAoZM

The area where the Mycenaean-era human sacrifice took place was likely a roofed hall, not an open space, according to the results.

06/02/2022

Η ‘ωραία αλεξανδρινή’! ❤️

📷 Πήλινο γυναικείο ειδώλιο, τέλος 4ου - αρχές 3ου αι. π.Χ. ΑΜΧ, αρ. ευρ. Π 6071

🔎 Από τη Συλλογή του μουσείου, η ‘ωραία αλεξανδρινή’ μας βρέθηκε σε έναν από τους θαλάμους του υπόγειου λαξευτού ταφικού μνημείου στην πόλη των Χανίων. Το έντονο μπλε που διατηρείται στο στεφάνι και το χρυσό στο κόσμημα του λαιμού, φωτίζουν τα χαριτωμένα και ήρεμα χαρακτηριστικά του προσώπου. Το ειδώλιο, κατασκευασμένο από φίνο λευκό πηλό, ήταν παραγωγή εργαστηρίου της Αλεξάνδρειας.
Πίσω, όμως, από αυτό το μοναδικής τέχνης αντικείμενο, κρύβεται μια καθημερινή, ανθρώπινη ιστορία. Ήταν ένα από τα κτερίσματα που συντρόφευσαν τη Σωσίμα που πέθανε λεχώνα, όπως μαρτυρεί η επιγραφή πάνω από την είσοδο του ταφικού της θαλάμου.

Να ήταν άραγε εξίσου όμορφη η Σωσίμα με την Αλεξανδρινή μας;

The ‘beautiful Alexandrian lady’! ❤️

📷 Terracotta female figurine, end of 4th - early 3rd c. BC. AMCh, inv. no. Π 6071

🔎 From the museum’s Collection, our ´beautiful Alexandrian lady´, was found in one of the burial chambers of an underground rock-cut funerary monument in the city of Chania. The bright blue color preserved in the wreath and the gold in the necklace, illuminate the graceful and serene facial features. The figurine, made of fine white clay, was produced by a workshop in Alexandria.
Behind, though, this exclusively crafted object lies an everyday, human story. It was one of the grave offerings that accompanied Sosima, who had died shortly after giving birth, as attested by the inscription at the entrance of her burial chamber.

Would Sosima have been as beautiful as our Alexandrian lady?

28/01/2022

White Mountains

Chania ❤
All seasons, all colours, all senses...

14/01/2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXfBVNKqKRM

The land of endless summer has a big announcement to make.You may be hearing this for the first time. It may surprise you. But Greece, has a winter too! ...

18/12/2021

We would like to thank very much the archaeologist Dr. Elpida Hadjidaki for the excellent tour she gave us, the professional tourist guides, around the ongoing excavation of Phalasarna. It gave us a new perspective of this very important harbor on the west coast of Crete dated from the Hellenistic period, which was destroyed by the big earthquake of 365 A.D. It was a reviling experience to see and walk along the pier of the ancient port, which is located nowadays 6,6 meters above sea level. It would be a pleasure to show our guests the very well-built towers, which ones protected the port facilities, the remains of the town and the breathtaking landscape of Phalasarna.