Zakros is part of the Prefecture Lassithi. Zakros is at the very east of Crete. About 1000 people are living here, summer and winter. Zakros is still a living village. There are many other small villages on Crete where people have gone away with their children. Quite oftne only some elder people stay in those villages. 1961 a great Greek archaeoligist N.Platon unearthed the fourth largest Minoan Palace. This was oriented politically and commercially towards the major civilisations of the Middle East. Already 1900 B.C. Zakros was a center of trading and growing olives. Clima and much water is ideal for growing olives. Zakros is the commercial and administrative center of the area. There are many cultural events in the central square of the village in the summer, attracting many visitors. There is rich vegetation because because of numerous springs in the area. The numerous springs are as well the reason for several renovated watermills. This is a well a sign for a long tradition of growing cereals in this area, which have been brought to that mills.

The village of Kato Zakros is located at the bay of Zakros 7km away from the village of Zakros and 42km from Sitia. Here in 1961 a great Greek archaeoligist N.Platon unearthed the fourth largest Minoan Palace. Nowadays in kato Zakros live a few people, occuping with farming, and fishing. The sea-shore is 500metres away, quite close for someone to enjoy its scents and glare under the sunlight and far enough to make every “civilized” sound coming from the visitor's cars, fade away. The area's peace and quite is disturbed only by nature’s sounds: birds, cicadas, the wind or the rustling of leaves. One can reach Zakros via a dirty road passing by the Archaeological Site first, and then by the exit of the “Dead's Gorge” (Faragi ton Nekron). This road used to connect Ano zakros with Kato zakros and a visitor “must” either drive or walk along it because the view to the Gorge from it, as she/he moves along its edge, is truly grandiose.

The path to the beach goes past small gardens, which the Zacrites (the inhabitants of zakros) have in order to produce their own vegetables, potatoes, fruit and citrus fruits. The beach is about a 7 or 8 minutes walk ( of course it is less by car) and it is a very pleasant route. The beaches of Kato zakros - famous for the clarity of the water- are covered either by pebbles or by fine sand. They are rich in fish and are suitable for either an amateur fisherman or a spear fisherman and a professional fisherman as well. Three taverns, a fast food with Greek delicacies (e.g. gyros, souvlaki, e.t.c.) and a cafe-bar are the beach's popular and only attractions. At the local tavern one can taste the wide range of the traditional Cretan cuisine, dishes which are cooked by natives only with locally-produced ingredients (oil, vegetables, fish). One must note here that the tavern-owners have their own gardens and grow the products they serve, themselves. Dinner at the beach, accompanied by a local wine, combined with the scent of the sea, is a unique pleasure one can enjoy.