Beaches around Agia Pelagia, Crete

First of all Agia Pelagia has got four beaches of its own. Next door to Agia Pelagia and within walking distance there is another nice beach, the beach of Lygaria. On a short distance just outside of Agia Pelagia there are two more beaches, more quiet, which are hardly ever visited by tourists, and they are the beaches of Pantanasa and Palaiokastro, situated between Agia Pelagia and Heraklion.