Welcome!

In an effort of a better communication with you, we created this web page. You are the most important component of our success and we thank you for the priceless moments of friendship that you offer to us daily with your presence. Our Obligation is to repay this love with chosen traditional cooker accompanied from a big variety of wines and other drinks of high quality.

The management and our personnel, look for you and your company to enjoy our good Greek Cretan food. We promise at the same time, to continue the tradition that so many years we created, so that we will remain your first choice.

In the "Velanidia" the romantic atmosphere that it dominates in the place, it transports in other distant seasons. In order to be able to cover the needs of your residence and make it as long as pleasant and beautiful it becomes, they exist a two-bed and three-bed rooms, as also and a Cretan traditional tavern. In the courtyard with the flowers but also in the uniform cooker can the visitor enjoy the coffee or the tea or even his drink that we offer during the day.

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  • Tavern
  • Gallery

The residence in the "Velanidia" is fascinating. We allocate rooms in most excellent quality in a quiet environment that comes in harmony with the nature. Every year our customers leave with the best impressions for our hospitality. We discuss with them and enduringly we were improved in order that the next years we can cover the needs of your residence and make it as long as pleasant and beautiful becomes.

The result is astonishing. Romantic atmosphere dominates in the space that it transports in other distant seasons. The two-bed and three-bed rooms are comfortable and made with fondness that make you feel that you are in a friendly house. All the rooms have television, refrigerator and are near in the village. Also some rooms have balcony with view the courtyard with the splendid flowers and others to the gorge that separates the village Margarites from Ancient Eleutherna.

In the courtyard with the flowers but also in the single cooker can the visitor enjoy the coffee or the tea or even his drink that we offer during the day. Also your dinners can become either in the courtyard of Tavern, either in the big veranda covered from pergola and trees that surround the space.

The residence in the "Velanidia" is fascinating. We allocate rooms in most excellent quality in a quiet environment that comes in harmony with the nature. Every year our customers leave with the best impressions for our hospitality. We discuss with them and enduringly we were improved in order that the next years we can cover the needs of your residence and make it as long as pleasant and beautiful becomes.

The result is astonishing. Romantic atmosphere dominates in the space that it transports in other distant seasons. The two-bed and three-bed rooms are comfortable and made with fondness that make you feel that you are in a friendly house. All the rooms have television, refrigerator and are near in the village. Also some rooms have balcony with view the courtyard with the splendid flowers and others to the gorge that separates the village Margarites from Ancient Eleutherna.

In the courtyard with the flowers but also in the single cooker can the visitor enjoy the coffee or the tea or even his drink that we offer during the day. Also your dinners can become either in the courtyard of Tavern, either in the big veranda covered from pergola and trees that surround the space.

The Tavern "the Velanidia" is open from 10 in the morning up to late the evening. It offers traditional Cretan dishes made from purely, fresh material and ecological products.

You can taste the delicious local goat meat, the olive oil and the home-grown wine, the black hand-kneaded bread, the exceptional cheese from goat prepared - as for centuries - in the low fire of timbers. And afterwards, seated in sweet shade, under arbor and wistaria, you enjoy the peacefulness of sunset, while in the quietness of nature, one distant overtone of music and songs comes in your ears from some festivals there nearby.

You also try cheese, oil, fruits and vegetables, all from our production. And you do not omit to taste our local special dishes, as:

  • Bread cooked in traditional oven with timbers
  • Ntolmades
  • Fava
  • Kid cooked in the oven in low fire
  • Special eggplant (for vegetarians)

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The Village - Margarites

Margarites knew big acne at the period of Venetian domination. Has been built in altitude of 300 metres, in the north foothill of Psiloritis. The fertile valley that is stretched out front of the village, composes one from the most especially pictures of Cretan landscape that when the visitor faces only emotion can to be felt.

Margarites is a beautiful mountainous village, that it has to offer in its visitors something more than the usual vacation. Apart from the experience of diachronic culture, the visitor of this magic place can visit Ancient Monasteries and Towers, to walk in paths with splendid sight view, kneel beautiful country-churches hidden in caves and gorges, climbed in the top of the steep mountains and built on foundations of ancient temples, to paint colours of nature,the sea, and shades, to feel the energy from crystals of the mountain, to photograph as from marvel everlasting bloomed wild flowers, to pass through the old cobbled roads of the village with jackass, under the shade of oil-trees, hearing the song of cicadas. Basic pastime of residents for thousands years is the pottery.

Events

In the building group of "Velanidia" are realised various events all the year with main activity the summertime. Because of our exceptional cuisine, the fondness that we offer but also our beautiful shaped space, we undertake any of your social event that seek abundant menu, traditional Cretan cooker and chosen and qualitative products!

For your social events as marriages, christening, engagements we offer space of 600 persons in pleasant environment with trees and flowers surround you. Also there is unlimited space for parking to avoid any glicth.

Also at the aestival period materealised various festivals with Cretan traditional music. Mainly in the period of August take place many traditional jug with climax on August 15th, where known Cretan singers undertake your amusement up to the first morning hours discovering thus the Greek warmth and concretely the Cretan hospitality.

Beyond what events take place here in the "Velanidia" materialised also some other events in the central square of village. In Margarites are presented theatrical events that are written from important Greek tragedians of Ancient Greece and have as central subject the person, the love, the nature reviving thus the mores and the traditions of our place.

 

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