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Extract from the Hani Travel Guides:
HANI
, as any of its residents will tell you, is spiritually the capital of Crete, even if the nominal title was passed back (in 1971) to Irklion. For many, it is also by far the island's most attractive city, especially if you can catch it in spring, when the Lefk ri's snowcapped peaks seem to hover above the roofs. Although it is for the most part a modern city, you might never know it as a tourist. Surrounding the small outer harbour is a wonderful jumble of half-derelict
Venetian streets
that survived the wartime bombardments, and it is here that life for the visitor is concentrated. Restoration and gentrification, con...
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