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The Piraeus Archaeological Museum offers the visitor a complete image of the city’s history, which was marked by great sevelopment during the ancient times, both as a commercial center of the eastern Mediterranean, and also as a naval base of ancient Athens.
The collection of tombal monuments from the area of the northern cemetery of the ancient city was the center of the Piraeus Archaeological Museum’s collection. This small, but important collection, was first housed in the city’s high school, on Korai square. In 1935, the first Archaeological Museum of Piraeus was founded, situated in the small building of eclecticistic style on Filellinon str., on the northern side of Zea theatre.
The museum as it stands today, was founded in 1966 as an extension of the old one, and opened its gates to the public in 1981. The Piraeus Archaeological Museum offers the visitor a complete image of the city’s history, which was marked by great sevelopment during the ancient times, both as a commercial center of the eastern Mediterranean, and also as a naval base of ancient Athens
Maritime Museum of Crete is located at the entrance to the historic fortress Firkas. It was founded in 1973 with the purpose of housing and the preservation of our maritime traditions and in particular of Crete, the view of our maritime history, as well as the cultivation of love toward the marine e
The purpose of the exhibition is to present the long lasting history of the island, and the short depiction of various aspects of human life, as it has been shifting through the ages.
The katholikon of St. Francis monastery was one of the greatest temples of Venetian Candia. When Candia fell to the Turks in 1669, the temple was converted into an imperial mosque dedicated to Muhammad the Conqueror, the conqueror of Constantinople.
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