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Best of

Crete

12 things not to miss

By Despoina Sampson

1. A guided tour around the Knossos recently renovated museum has big exhibit household goods and cooking implements
archaeological site. Surviving monument areas, an audiovisual room, and labs. has also been set up. Books, manuscripts,
complexes date back to the neopalatial age 3. As long as tradition rules, a visit to the old photographs, paintings, weapons, coins,
(1700-1450 BC), such as the second palace and Folklore Museum of Agios Nikolaos is a multi-colored woven rugs and examples of
several other building complexes. In addition to must. This museum was established in 1985 traditional Cretan costumes complete the
the Minoan palace complex, the visitor can also by the Cultural Association of Eastern Crete interesting collection. These items have been
see private homes with rich interior murals, as and is housed on the ground floor of the Port donated to the Folklore Museum in recognition
well as public buildings and religious centers. A Authority building, one of the oldest buildings of the valuable role it plays in the preservation
private pillared house with wonderful mosaic in town, which is located by the lake. You and display of the rich traditional heritage of
floors survives from the Roman age. could admire so many displays of traditional everyday life in Crete. This visit will help you
2. A tour around the Minoan antiquities in the Cretan handicrafts, unique to the region such to become familiar with the sort of work and
Heraclion Archaeological Museum in the as textiles, woven goods and embroidery of activities the people of this area had in the old
center of the city. This is the most important intricate detail and imaginative designs. A model days. Folklore Museum of Agios Nikolaos, 2,
collection of its kind in the world, and the of a traditional Cretan house, equipped with Kondylaki Street (opposite the bridge,
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