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The Chania Chamber Music festival returns to Platanias

La création du monde

The Chania Chamber Music Festival, now in its 11th year, claims to be the only event in Crete devoted exclusively to chamber music. Its artistic committee is composed of a number of distinguished musicians: violinist Giorgos Demertzis, pianists Vasilis Varvaresos and Titos Gouvelis, cellist Angelos Liakakis and violinist-businessman Giorgos Mathioulakis. This year’s festival, which carries the title “The Creation of the World – La Création du Monde”, from the 1923 work of the same name by Darius Milhaud, aims to present works which were ground-breaking in their time, opening up new artistic horizons.

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Beach facilities for the disabled at Platanias

The Municipality of Platanias is one of the major tourist municipalities of Greece, with numerous Greek and foreign visitors, with a large number of hotel units and organised beaches, many of which have Blue Flag certification. The Municipality has announced that during this year’s sea-bathing period, four of its beaches are fully accessible to people with problems of mobility. The accessibility infrastructure has been funded under the Competitiveness, Entrepreneurship and Innovation programme of ESPA 2014-2020.

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Electricity cables to be buried underground

Power lines in Platanias
Overhead power lines, insulators and a transformer cabinet clutter the streetscape in Platanias. Photo: Google Maps.

The unsightly mess of overhead power cables and transformers which line the streets of the towns and villages of Crete are something which the long-time resident eventually tunes out – more or less, but they remain a jarring sight for visitors from countries where cables are normally under the ground. The reasons for the choice must lie partly in cheapness and ease of access, as well as possibly greater resistance to damage from earthquakes. It is nevertheless good news that, according to a press release by the Municipality of Platanias, plans are under way to bury the power lines in the local community, and it is to be hoped that the process may be extended in future to other areas in the Municipality, including Kolymbari:

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