Mount Ida (Crete)
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Mount Ida, known variously as Idha, Ídhi, Idi, and Ita, is the highest mountain on the island of Crete, with an elevation of 2,456 metres. It has the highest topographic prominence of any mountain in
View of Psiloritis mountains from the west
Mouth of the Idaean Cave
Eastern ridge of the summit of Mount Ida.
Shepherd's hut (mitato) on Nida Plateau, eastern side of Mt Ida
Psychro Cave
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Psychro Cave is an ancient Minoan sacred cave in the Lasithi plateau in the Lasithi district of eastern Crete. Around the beginning of 20th century, several scholars identified Psychro with Dikte, a n
Mount Ida (Crete)
…one of the caves, Idaion Antron, the Idaean Cave, in which, according to legend, the god Zeus was born. Other legends, however, place his birthplace in Psychro Cave on the Lasithi Plateau. An archaeobotanical study was conducted that looked at the different plant bases in Minoan villas during the Neo-palatial time…
Floodlit stalagmites and stalactites in the cave’s interior
The water pool