Tzermiado

Tzermiado village is one of the most beautiful villages of the Lasithi plateau, at an altitude of 850 meters, 50 kilometers west of Agios Nikolaos city and is one of the most beautiful winter destinations of Crete.

The name of the village comes from the first years of the Venetian inhabitation of island. The human presence in the area starts back to the Neolithic Ages giving it historical importance, as here have found many pottery objects of the Middle Minoan period, as shells and bronze objects of Roman period.

Next to the village is the famous cave of Trapeza or Kronion where, apart from the speleological interest it presents, have found ancient traces of habitation and was used as a place of worship as indicated the gold objects and figurines found and objects of Egyptian worship, and later shown to used as a landfill.