Georgopoulis Crete satellite map and beach report

Greek island holidays | Georgopoulis Crete

Georgopoulis is now well on the tourist map in part because it sits on the end of a very long stretch of sand half way between the two main cities on the northern coast, Rethymnon in the east and Chania in the west. The new main road also runs directly behind the beach area making for easy travel.
The village centre is a bit of a dump. The square is a car park hemmed in by the usual array of tourist shops, rental outfit and cafes. Advert hoardings abound and the place does nothing to shake of a shabby, temporary tourist atmosphere. The rest of the village is a mish mash of newly built apartments. The saving grace are the tall and striking eucalyptus trees that provide plenty of shade.
The open beach runs in an almost straight line for 7km to the east towards Rethymnon North facing, it is exposed and sunbathers are prone to suffer when the wind gets up while swimmers must brace themselves for rough seas.
A long long causeway runs out from the harbour area to an attractive and much photographed chapel. The unattractive harbour has been home to an ugly, rusting wreck for many years and an incongruous full-size tarmac soccer pitch sits next to the sea behind dilapidated wire fence. The flat scrubland behind the long beach, a favoured dropping zone for German paratroops in World War II, is now spattered with modern beach hotels and beach village complexes.