Mochlos

Mochlos, the well-known coastal village of eastern Crete, stands out for a number of qualities: its rare picturesque style, its healthy and most agreeable climate, its very own, special ambience, its unparalleled landscape, etc.

The celebrated Mochlos landscape is an outstanding mixture of sea, mountains, islets and colors, it represents the “quintessence” of the Greek landscape and one of the most splendid in the world, that “no camera lens can reproduce”, in the words of our guests, who upon their arrival realize, to their surprise, that Mochlos radiates with beneficial energy which enchants, pacifies and rejuvenates. It is to this incredibly beautiful, magical landscape that scholars attribute the fact that the largest quantities of gold jewellery and diadems of the Minoan civilization—more even than those at Knossos!—were discovered here, on the islet of Mochlos, similar to the diadems of the Queen of Sheba of the Sumerians! These masterpieces are exhibited at the Archaeological museums of Heraklion, Ag. Nikolaos and Sitia. It is certainly no accident that Mochlos, as numerous finds indicate, had developed relations with the great civilizations of Anatolia (Mesopotamia etc.), nor that the renown “gold ring” of Mochlos, comparable to “the ring of Minos” found at Knossos, was discovered here. It is, in fact, this very ring that we have used in the logo of our complex.