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The Archanes Arachaeolgical Collection was inaugurated on August 21 1993, in the centre of the Archanes town, on the Tzami district.The exhibits are laid out in chronological order.
The Archanes Arachaeolgical Collection was inaugurated on August 21 1993, in the centre of the Archanes town, on the Tzami district.
The museum’s small building, a neoclassic building, was the first public school of the town, which operated until the 1920’s
The exhibits are laid out in chronological order. The first findings are of prehistoric times, from the Fourni cemetery.
The most important exhibit, are probably the various types of clay sarcophagi, even a child’s, and the tombal pithoi, as found with the bones of the deceased in reduced position, not only because a Cretan museum forms an idea on the burial of the dead, but because of the way of their underground exhibition.
Immediately after that, thre are ceramic exhibits from various burial buildings in Fourni, in a variety of shapes.
The ceramic exhibits, also contain 3 pithoi from the temple’s central room. There are also : a mold of the achates stamp the priest wore, and a copy of the copper weapon that was used for sacrifices, bearing an animal headed emblem on both sides.
The Marika Kotopouli Museum started operating on May 9 1990, in order to be a functional museum of modern art. The building is the summer house, built in 1926 by the great actress of the Greek Theatre Marika Kotopouli.
The exhibits of the museum are very important, and consist of sculptures from Livadeia and Cheronea, ceramics from prehistoric and historic locations around Cheronea, Elateia,coins and weapons from the Tomb of Macedonians and the mass graves of Thebians in Cheronea.
The Fortezza (Fortezza) is the Venetian castle in Rethymno, which dominates the hill of Palaiokastrou, almost into the center of the old town. The Fortezza is visible from every corner of the city, while at the same time has panoramic views across the town of Rethymno and the west coast, hiding within the entire centuries.
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