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Grab yourself a late deal >Open days announced at the Skinakas observatory, Crete
One of Crete's most important buildings is this year to host open days on selected summer evenings.
The Skinakas Observatory, 80 km from Heraklion, will be open to visitors on four remaining dates, commencing on July 22nd and finishing on September 23rd.
The complex will be open from 5pm to 11pm, with both visitors and local residents welcome.
The observatory is regarded as one of Europe's best, benefiting from its high altitude (1,750 metres) and the comparatively clean, unpolluted air of Crete. Clear Mediterranean skies are also an advantage.
The impressive domed building contains Greece's largest telescope, whose 1.3 metre lens has been providing data for just over a decade.
Used primarily as a station for scientific research, the observatory is jointly run by the island's university, the Greek Foundation for Research, Technology-Hellas and a German physics institute.
Day-trippers coming to the area for the open evening can stop off at the nearby Ideon Andron, the spectacular cave where, according to myth, the god Zeus spent his childhood.
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