Ierapetra

Ierapetra is a metropolis and municipality at the south coast of Crete. It lies south of Agios Nikolaos and southwest of Sitia and is an vital regional centre. With its 16,139 inhabitants in 2011 it's far the maximum populous metropolis within the regional unit of Lasithi, and the fourth city of Crete. Ierapetra is nicknamed "bride of the Libyan Sea" because of its position because the simplest town at the south coast of Crete.

Ierapetra has had a place within the history of Crete since the Minoan period. The Greek and later Roman city of Hierapytna become on the same site as present day Ierapetra. The place's fundamental economic sports are agriculture within the winter and tourism in the summer. The agricultural manufacturing can be divided into two major parts. Whereas olive oil has been produced all around the municipality at the least due to the fact Minoan instances, for the ultimate thirty years big portions of fruit and veggies have additionally been exported. These are grown in plastic greenhouses, which unfold over an area of 15,000,000 square meters between the town of Ierapetra.