Kamilari

Cultural Commitee website

Map of Kamilari

At a distance of 3 km north of Kamilari and west of Phaistos, on top of the hill of Grigori Korfi, the Minoan vaulted tomb in Kamilari was discovered, at an altitude of about 80 meters.

The tomb was discovered in the summer of 1959 after the excavations of the Italian professor Doro Levi, who dated the specific find to around 2000 BC.

The tomb was discovered in the summer of 1959 after the excavations of the Italian professor Doro Levi, who dated the specific find to around 2000 BC. It was built on the northern side of the peak, at a point with a panoramic view of the Asterousia Mountains, Psiloritis and the plain of Messara. Important finds were found in this tomb, which are kept today in the Archaeological Museum of Heraklion, one of them is a statue with four dancers in a circle, which looks like a modern Cretan dance and is called Dancers from Kamilari, where it is now officially the emblem of the Cultural Committee of Kamilari.

south Crete

Heraklion Perfecture

Photo Archive

Restoration of old photos from the village

This is an under development wensite from the ongoing effort to preserve the memories via digitizing old photos. The photo archiving website can be found in the following link

https://pics.kamilari.org.gr

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Kamilari Virtual Tour

The virtual tour contains photo spheres from places near Kamilari.

You can view the tour in a Virtual Reality mode if you have the appropriate heaset (Oculus, Pico) or a VR cardboard by using your mobile phone.