Tour at traditional village St. Barbara, Gortis, Festos, Agia Triada and Matala. • TRADITIONAL VILLAGE ST. BARBARA (is a town and seat of the homonymous municipality and the municipal community unity municipality Gortis) – • GORTIS (is an archeological site, the church of St Titus, the Odeon and the famous Plane Tree) • FESTOS (is first referenced by Homer as "well populated", and the Homeric epics indicate its participation in the Trojan war) • AGIA TRIADA (is the archaeological site of an ancient Minoan settlement) • MATALA ( was the port of Phaistos during the Minoan period. In the year 220 BC) A safe natural harbour on the Bay of Messara, blessed with a gently sweeping sand and pebble beach, the place in legend where Zeus swam ashore in the guise of a bull with Europa on his back. Many people make this village their base for Cretan holidays, as it is so central on the south coast, and away from the over-development of the north coast. The beach is 250m long and 45m wide.