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Crete 1: Fill in the gaps
 

Read the following three paragraphs about the Greek island, Crete, and fill the blanks using the words listed beneath. Use to check your answers or to get the correct answer.

relaxing, magnificent, undeveloped, packed, rugged, flourished


Greece's largest island has the dubious distinction of playing host to a quarter of all visitors to Greece. It's still possible to find some peace by visiting the     west coast, the     mountainous interior and the villages of the Lassithi plateau. Crete was the centre of the Minoan culture, Europe's first advanced civilisation, which     from 2800 to 1450 BC. The palace of Knossos, just outside Crete's largest city, Iraklio, is the most     of Crete's Minoan sites. While Iraklio is a hell-hole, the other large towns, Hania and Rethymno, are     with beautiful Venetian buildings. Paleohora, on the south-west coast, was discovered by hippies in the 1960s and from then on its days as a quiet fishing village were numbered, but it remains a     place favoured by backpackers.

 
 
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