Minimally designed and newly built. This high quality equipped apartment(entire private holiday home)is ideal for quiet and relaxing holidays. An amazing view from the windows overlooking the south Crete Lentas bay (only 2 min.walking from apartment to the beach). An incredible destination for your visit to Crete. Outdoor private furniture courtyard to enjoy and relax at any moment during the day or evening hours. We hope you will love the style of this property and you will enjoy your stay!

The Asclepius Temple. With the establishment of a welfare center, the Asclepius temple, in the 4th. century before Christ, Lentas (Leion, Levin, Lebena) became famous across its borders. The temple was established as a satellite of the powerful central temple on the Peloponnese. Beside a temple with statues of god and his daughter Hygeia there was also a treasure house with an underground space, in which the gifts for the god were secured. A magnificent floor mosaic, which represents a hippocampus (sea-horse), decorates this building section and is preserved. Byzantine church. Only a few meters from the Temple of Asklepios you can visit the Byzantine church of the village (15th century A.D.) where you can still see many pillars of the original temple. History of Lentas 1. The name “Lentas” is pre-Hellenic and comes from the Phoenician word “Lavi” («Λάβι») that means lion or from the pre-Hellenic word Levinthos («Λέβυνθος»). Lentas owes its name to the magisterial rock which is the western boundary of the bay of Lentas and it looks like a seated lion. According to the myth, one of the lions that dragged the carriage of Rea was petrified in that place. Another myth describes that Cleopatra visited the area having a lion, an elephant and a crocodile with her. She was so stunned from the area that she left her animals there to protect it. The rock that looks like an elephant is opposite Psamidomouri cape, while the Trafoulas cape looks like a crocodile. During the Minoan period when Lentas was an important port it was known as Levina or Levin. A variety of finds from that period like vessels, cycladic idols, gems and an Egyptian scarabaeus are displayed in the archaeological museum of Heraklion. However the site of Lentas is more known due to the Temple of Asklepios which dates back to the 5th century B.C. Asklepios was a god with therapeutic skills whom so many people, not only from Greece but from South Africa as well, visited Lentas in order to be cured.