The city of Heraklion has numerous important places and sites for a person to visit. crete heraklion hotels Of great importance are the 3 gates that still exist today and connect the city within the Venetian walls with the expansion of the city outside the walls. The Gate of the Pantocrator (Chanioporta) connects the city center with the western areas, the Gate of Jesus - New Gate with the southern and finally the Gate of St. George with the east. Many of the walls are open to the public today and are used for cultural events, especially during the summer months. The Gates of Vituri and Bethlehem, have 2 low squares ideal for events where the viewer is "embraced" by the Venetian walls, with magnificent arcades leading to them. The Gate of the Pantocrator also has a sunken square that one leads from an uphill portico inside the Gate itself. The reconstructed Pantocrator Gate has the largest open to the public enclosed space within the walls.
The Gate of the Pantocrator (Chanioporta)
Apart from the closed spaces of the galleries inside the walls, which were the hidden ways of passing from one bastion to another, the walls have a large area of open outdoor space with paths, sometimes utilized and sometimes left to time and abandonment, which are ideal points and walking for tourists but mainly for the residents of the city. The points of view of the city along the entire length of the walls vary and the view can cross the whole city to the sea and the neighboring mountains that surround the city of Heraklion as a whole. Nevertheless, most of the total area of public space on the walls is unused.
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