Chania: Private Walking Tour: History, Sights, Food & Senses｜Greece

Welcome to Chania Old Town: In this Chania city private walking tour, our professional historian and licensed tour guide will guide you through Chania Town. History, smells, lovely sights, archaeology and hospitable people are all combined in this Chania walking tour of the 5 senses!

Our tour starts at the Venetian harbour, where our licensed guide will welcome you and guide you briefly about Chania's rich history, culture and attractions. Venetian Rule, Egyptian Era, Roman Rule, Ottoman Period and World War 2 history all come aboard right in front of your eyes on this Chania walking tour.

We continue walking, as we approach the Venetian Harbor and the lighthouse, as our certified guide in Chania shows you the sights, the first settlement of Ancient Kydonia (Chania) and explains the archaeological finds of the town: The Venetian fortifications, as well as houses of the Ottoman Period with their distinctive flair.

As we progress, our historian tour guide allows free time for a snack or a coffee in a place that allows us unforgettable photo memories and the chance to blend in with the locals in a pristine non- touristy neighbourhood. After our refreshing break, we continue onwards, while our guide makes you sense the history by using rare historical archives, that compare the town's past with the present of nowadays on this walking tour of Chania city.

We continue our tour making unforgettable photo memories, as we ascend to hills of important historical significance, and the in-town archaeological sites where we enhance our knowledge about the civilizations that Chania city has welcomed on the 3000 year old rich history of our town.

Towards the end of our City of Chania walking tour our licensed guide will educate you on our ethics, our unwritten rules, our customs and our rich religious history, as we stop to the most famous churches of Chania city, to explain the role the Christian Orthodox Church and tradition plays in nowadays Cretan society.

A Walking Tour of Chania City would have been inadequate without the famous Cretan Food! We grasp the chance to taste and experience the traditional Cretan diet, as our professional Chania tour guide will take us to one of the local delicatessen shops to taste local dairy products, table olives and raki, as we progress to the end of this Chania walking Tour towards one of the oldest food stores in town, to devour the famous Chania Bougatsa, a traditional dessert made with Mizithra fresh goat cheese, pastry dough and love!