The Museum of the Battle of Crete and National Resistance (1941-1945) was founded by the Municipality of Heraklion in May 1994.The museum’s aim is to collect, preserve and exhibit relics from 1941-1945 in an appropriate manner, as well as to document and disseminate information on the people’s struggle during the Battle of Crete and the […]
The Archaeological Museum of Archanes opened in 1993. It occupies an area of 570 square meters and it is located at the Tzami quarter in the center of the settlement. There, for the first time in Crete, the archaeological finds from a single site are exhibited. While the exterior spaces of the building were adapted […]
After 25 years, Kissamos in western Crete has finally found a place to house its archaeological treasures. The exhibits provide a view of local history through the ages, from prehistoric times to late antiquity and the Early Christian period.
A two storey house, located at the old port of Chania, with a total area of 840 m2. The exhibition includes about 2,500 exhibits, such as models of ships, different kinds of naval instruments and devices, paintings, heirlooms, gleanings from the sea bottom, shells, photographs etc., which are divided in 13 units, covering chronologically all […]
The temple Kioutsouk (small) Hassan or Giali Tzamisi (seaside mosque), as it was commonly called, a brilliant sample of Islamic art of the Renaissance was a work of an Armenian architect, who had constructed another similar mosque in ‘Spaniako’, a village in the county of ‘Selino’. The mosque, in the yard of which there were […]
Chania Archaeological Museum is on Halidon Street in the centre of the old town, and houses the Archaeological Collection of Chania Prefecture. The Archaeological Collection of Chania has been housed in various public buildings (the Residency, the Boys’ High School, the Hassan Mosque). Since 1963 it has been housed, albeit temporarily, in the Venetian church […]
The Folkore Museum of Agios Nikolaos, in collaboration with the “Cultural Society of Eastern Crete”, founded in 1978. All the original and important material was generously offered by the Touring Club of Agios Nikolaos. Since then more objects have been added to the collection. A visit to the Folk Art Museum will help you to […]
Information: Archaeological Museum of Agios Nikolaos was founded in 1970 in order to house the numerous new archaeological finds from eastern Crete, which until then, were housed in the Museum of Herakleion. Finds from the Early Minoan (3000-2000 B.C.) cemetery at Agia Photia of Sitia Finds from the Early Minoan II settlement at Fournou Koryfi of […]
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Cave Zoniana, Sfendoni or Sfendoni’s Hole, is located 1km north of Zoniana village in Mylopotamos, about 43km west of Heraklion and 52 southeast of Rethymno. It is shaped on the southern slopes of the hill Halepa at an altitude of 630m.
