Vourgies

Bourgia is the Cretan backpack. Bourgia is an essential tool for the man of the countryside because in it he transported his food and other necessities so that the Cretan could make a living. It is usually worn on the back of the shepherd together with the katsouna (stick) or hung on the scarves (neck) of the donkey. Everything went into the bourgia, and if it were not everything, the bottle with the wine or the tsikoudia would hardly disappear like the erotic poem of Vicenzo Kornaros "Erotokritos".