Local Businesses
Development Of Hinterland Municipality Of Heraklion
The surrounding area of the Municipality of Heraklion along with its rich traditional products, is adopting the modern spirit of entrepreneurship and has expanded and is being modernized also in other business sectors.
It focuses on the processing, standardizing and promoting these traditional products while shows a strong contemporary residential (with restorations, reconstructions, etc.), cultural (local and international events range), touristic (agritourist lodgings, etc.), industrial, craft and business development.
The visitor - particularly near the harvesting period - encounters modern factories operating, processing olives (mills), packaging units and standardized oil processing plants packing, marketing and exporting olive products (savory olives such as throumbes, tsakistes, kolymbades, stafidolies, olive paste, etc.) with recognizable variety names that have won international awards. The extra virgin olive oil from the olive trees of the Koroneiko variety, (acidity 0.1 to 1%) is a firmly recognized value of the region.
Many plants are operating with modern reception and processing units, for various types of wine grapes, produced in either conventional or organic vineyards in many villages (eg Dafnes, Stavrakia, Ag. Myron, Asites, Venerato, Profitis Ilias, Avgeniki, Skalani, etc.). These plants are also producing internationally known varieties and products, recognized as PDO and have added many local and international awards to their credit.
Famous wines such as the White (dry, semi-dry, semi-sweet and sweet), the Red (dry, semi-dry, semi-sweet and sweet), the rosé (Rose) (dry, semi-dry, semi-sweet and sweet), the Liasto (from sun-dried grapes) come from unique varieties (like Kotsifali, Vilana, Athyri, Muscat, Plyto, Thrapsathiri, Sauvignon, Syrah, Cabernet, Merlot, Malvasia di Candia Aromatica, Ladikino, Liatiko, Assyrtiko, Vidiano, etc.) and consist the identity of the area, in which they are produced and are marketed all over the world.
A great distance of the world renowned, EU Project, called "Wine Route", runs through most of the villages in the region of the Municipality of Heraklion, demonstrating qualitative recognition by the international community, for the varieties of wine grapes produced in the area.
Residents, process and market with their own means their "family" labels of bee products (honey, royal jelly, honeycomb and wax), homemade desserts from local products (jams or griddle, dried fruit) bread products (bread, rusk, cakes, cookies, etc.) with particular relish.
A great deal of other businesses and crafts (e.g. repair shops, mini markets, stores for the processing and sale of herbs and aromatic plants, production and marketing of vegetable and organic produce, distilleries, agricultural supplies, aviaries, butchers, plant nurseries, etc.) are established and operated, making the hinterland of the Municipality an extramural, dynamic financial institution, while arbitrary covering every need or desire of their visitor.
Map with Local enterprises in the inland areas of Heraklion:
Crete due to its geographic position, climatic conditions and geological history is considered by herbalists paradise herbs, as well as having recorded 1,742 kinds of plants, 159 of which are endemic, while there are still several endemic subspecies, varieties and hybrids.
Fruits - Vegetables – Herbs
The Cretan diet is necessarily alright fruits, vegetables and legumes play and is internationally known that consumes several of them on an almost daily basis. So strictly and cares about quality and the physical production.
