The province of Ierapetra is one of the four provinces of the prefecture of Lassithi. The capital is the city of Ierapetra. The economy of the region based on tourism, oil and in recent years in the production of vegetables grown all year round in greenhouses. Ierapetra The province has some good examples of Byzantine churches with frescoes. There are two notable monasteries, the Monastery and the Monastery Famous Faneromenis. East of Ierapetra there are some wonderful beaches in the Gulf of Makrygialos.
Ierapetra is currently in productive areas of the country. Source of wealth is tourism and the production of vegetables, flowers and olive oil. This is primarily financial and commercial center of the prefecture as a commercial center export agricultural products to Europe.
The entrance to the Municipality of Ierapetra is wonderful. The journey across the ancient city Gournia with small houses and a survey on the hillside monastery Faneromeni. In the valley we see the right and left villages Kavousi, Vassiliki, Monastiraki, against which opens Gorge «Ha», Up and Lower Village, Diocese Center and go. Other villages of the Province is the East, Saint John, the Kalamafka the Makrylia, the Monk, the Meseleroi etc.
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 Until 1965 was a poor town with the typical agrotoktinotrofiki economy of Crete, when she came in Ierapetra young Dutch agronomist, Paul Cooper. Children of poor families with many children, he studied agriculture at the expense of the Church and the obligation to provide free services for one year in an underdeveloped area. Choose Ierapetra saw that because the temperate climate and fertile soil was what was on greenhouse crops developed at that time. The residents in the authority faced with disbelief but he has not lost the courage. Over the next twenty years, the entire south coast of Crete skepastike and from greenhouses has been remarkable growth in income, but Cooper did not live to see the vision of success: in 1968 he was killed in a road accident. The residents of Ierapetra to set up a glowing statue between the greenhouses, where he planted the seeds of today's wealth.
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