Kaloi Limenes
Settlement in Greece
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Kaloi Limenes or Kali Limenes (Greek: Καλοί Λιμένες [kaliˈ liménes]) is a village and port in the Heraklion regional unit, southern Crete, in Greece, located 70km (43.5 miles) south-west of the city of Heraklion. It has 17 inhabitants (2021).[1] It is known as a major bunkering spot for ships in the southern Mediterranean.[2]
Kaloi Limenes
Καλοί Λιμένες | |
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Settlement | |
Panorama of Kaloi Limenes, painted by Thomas Abel Brimage Spratt, from Travels and researches in Crete (1865) | |
  Kaloi Limenes | |
| Coordinates: 34°55′46.9″N 24°48′01.1″E | |
| Country | Greece |
| Administrative region | Crete |
| Regional unit | Heraklion |
| Municipality | Faistos |
| Municipal unit | Moires |
| Community | Pigaidakia |
| Population (2021)[1] | |
• Total | 17 |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (EEST) |
| Postal code | 700 09 |
| Area code | 28920 |
History
Kaloi Limenes (meaning 'good harbors' or 'fair havens') is a natural port near the southernmost point of Crete. It is close to the village of Lentas (ancient Levin), and the unexcavated remains of Lassea, a port for the ancient settlement of Gortys.[3]
According to the Acts of the Apostles, Apostle Paul, landed at Kaloi Limenes on his way from Caesarea to Rome as a prisoner of the Romans,[4][5] then attempted to proceed further west along the coast to Phoinikas ("Phoenix"), identified to the homonym small village in the bay west of Loutro or Loutro itself.[6][7][8][9] A small church was built there (first in Byzantine times, then restored in the 1960s).[6]
Bunkering
The port is the home of a bunkering facility, located on the small island of Aghios Pavlos (Saint Paul) at its entrance. The facility has four shore-based storage tanks containing fuel oil and gasoil, pumps of 1,000 cubic meters per hour capacity and three loading docks. The terminal's maximum draft of 40 feet (13.45 metres)[10] enables the facility to handle oil tankers of up to approximately two hundred thousand metric tons of deadweight.[2]
