Museums

“Kostas Kotsanas” Museum of Ancient Greek Technology

“Kostas Kotsanas” Museum of Ancient Greek Technology

The “Kostas Kotsanas” Museum of Ancient Greek Technology studies highlights and presents to Greek and foreign visitors the technology of the ancient Greeks, an extremely important but relatively unknown aspect of the ancient Greek civilization. In a Venetian building, the “Palazzo d’Ittar”, at 18 Epimenidou Str. in the center of Heraklion, visitors have the unique […]

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Museum of Christian Art “St. Catherine of Sinai” in Heraklion

Museum of Christian Art “St. Catherine of Sinai” in Heraklion

Located next to St. Minas Cathedral, the church of St. Catherine is one of the best-preserved examples of the Venetian architectural design of churches.   The monastery of St. Catherine of Sinai was the most important Orthodox monastery in Chandax. The existing building was the monastery’s katholikon dating back to the 16th century. Under Venetian rule,

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