BOTANICAL PARK
BOTANICAL PARK15th km. NAT. ROAD CHANION-OMALOUCHANIA, 73100 PREFECTURE OF CHANIA Tel: 6976-860573 e-Mail: info@botanical-park.gr Web Site: http://www.botanical-park.com |
Walking around a green-clad environment,
you will come across over 150 species of fruit trees,
dozens of herbs, pharmaceutical and ornamental plants.
Trekking, educational and recreational park
The temperate, subtropical climate of
More particularly, the relief and the microclimate of the area around the Botanical Park of Crete, located
Fruit trees from all over the world producing edible fruit, herbs, pharmaceutical and ornamental plants, all scattered around an area with a surface of two hundred square kilometers await you to discover them.
The idea
My village, Skordalou, lies at a distance of
I remember the summers in my village when I was a young boy; many children would come here from
It would strike me that they knew nothing about plants, not even olive or orange trees, to say nothing of the loquat or the carob tree for example. But then again, growing up in a large city or in a place with different plants does not leave room for much.
By the end of October
The damage was unprecedented: sixty thousand olive trees over 400 hundred years old had been burnt. My village had been ruined both financially and ecologically.
My family had many orange and olive trees in an area with a surface of about 150-200 square kilometres, which was also ruined.
After this destruction, I thought that all that burnt land could become a botanical park for trekking, education and recreation. My three brothers all agreed to this idea.
Flora
The nearby Balkan Peninsula is one of the richest areas in the
Restaurant
The restaurant of the Botanical Park of Crete combines the revival of traditional cooking methods -recipes such as the traditional open fireplace, wooden oven, hot stone etc and products from rich Creta soil
"Nature does not seek to perpetuate the human species but to secure the biodiversity of the species."
Theophrastus
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