Plekken in Rethymno Old Town

A modern rakadiko where locals actually eat

Modern Mediterranean in a flower-filled courtyard

Cocktails in the secret garden of an Ottoman mansion

Contemporary Greek folk-art ceramics workshop

Creative Cretan dining in a Venetian courtyard

Ten antique-filled suites in Venetian dwellings

Contemporary suites in a 17th-century town house

Stone-and-greenery room in the old-town lanes

Craft cocktails in a 16th-century stone building

Cretan cooking under a canopy of lemon trees

Two historic estates in the Venetian quarter

Cliffside Cretan plates beneath the Fortezza

Cretan cooking around a 16th-century well

Suites in a Venetian-Ottoman old-town mansion

Creative Cretan inside a 15th-century monastery

A 15th-century Venetian palace below the Fortezza