Mr. Nikolaos Panayiotakis, who methodically studied the place-names of Crete claims that the name “Loumas” is Byzantine and he associates it with the verb ‘reo” to flow, the noun “nero” or water and the verb “loume” to bathe.On the sweeping plain of Louma are the settlements of Pano and Kato Seles, which place names relate to the morphology of the terrain and mean the nape of the hillside.The view towards the Cretan Gulf is magnificent from whichever side you look.