CRETE TRAVEL GUIDE

Crete Travel Guide
Chania
Top 10 Sights
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1 Firkas
Built to guard the
harbour, this massive bastion
now houses an eclectic
Naval Museum, including a
display about the Battle of
Crete.
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Chania Archaeological
Museum
The excellent collection
includes Minoan pottery and
clay tablets, Classical and
Hellenistic sculpture and
glassware, and some fine
mosaics.
Chania is Crete’s prettiest (and second largest) town, with
colourful old Venetian buildings ringing a sheltered
harbour that is guarded by sturdy fortifications. To the
south are the treeless peaks of the Lefka Ori (White
Mountains), sometimes snow-covered to June. Good
beaches lie to the west and on the Akrotiri peninsula to
the east. As well as Venetian ramparts and churches, a
scattering of old Turkish buildings are reminders of the
250 years of Turkish rule.
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Municipal Market
The market, housed in
a 19th-century building, is
best visited first thing in the
morning. Local farm produce
is piled high, including
weird-looking fish on beds of
ice. There is every
imaginable variety of olive,
herb and spice.
Cretan House Folklore Museum
With its excellent collection of tools, looms, spinning
wheels, rugs, wall hangings and embroidery, this
museum reveals and preserves traditional Cretan village
skills (see Folklore Museums).
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Mosque of the Janissaries
The Turks built this multi-domed building to set their
stamp on Crete after the conquest of 1645. It is the
oldest Ottoman building on the island.
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