Alikianos is a nice village situated about 13 km from the town of Chania on the way to the Omalos mountain. You drive from Chania first to Oasis (a kind of modern suburb of Chania), then along Lake Agia and shortly afterwards you take the exit on your right to the village Alikianos. The first thing you notice when you enter the village is the beautiful big church that stands here with its dome and two towers. At the church is an impressive war memorial of marble with a bronze bird on top to commemorate the people of the Greek resistance that were killed by the Germans in the village. Unfortunately there has been a lot of fighting at this place during the Second World War.
If you walk from the church into the village you will pass houses of which many have orange or lemon trees in the garden. In the village there is even a real factory where orange juice is made. Crates of oranges are piled up in the street and you can see how they are washed and then disappear into the machines. From a nice lady who worked here we got a whole pile of oranges to take home. The soil is very fertile around the village of Alikianos and is therefore it is surrounded by field after field with thousands of orange trees.
In Alikianos are the ruins of the Venetian castle that once belonged to the aristocratic Molini family and in a street a little further lies the 14th century church of Agios Ioannis. The church looks nice on the outside and inside the church (which was open) are some fragments of wall paintings to be seen.