Gonia is a picturesque village in the Rethymno Prefecture

Rethymno Prefecture

Rethymno is one of the four regional units of Crete, Greece. Its capital is the city of Rethymno. Today its main income is tourism. The countryside is also based economically on agriculture and herding.-Administration:...

 in Crete

Crete

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, Greece

Greece

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, lying at an altitude of ca 222 m amsl, just SW, 10km of the town of Rethymno

Rethymno

Rethymno is a city of approximately 40,000 people in Greece, the capital of Rethymno peripheral unit in the island of Crete. It was built in antiquity , even though was never a competitive Minoan centre...

, on the old national road to Chania. Gonia is the seat of the municipality Nikeforos Fokas. [Build recently a new school for all the villages around Gonia. Famous foreign inhabitants of Gonia are Ineke Banninga founder of The Happy Walker for walks in the area (lived since 1988) and Berry Dekker (lived since 2001)]