Chania is one of these cities where the charm depends on the memories that accompany it as the years go by. Α monument, a sound, a building, a smell, enchant the visitor when he comes across them. When memories are accompanied by written and photographic testimonies the description in the city acquires an additional charm that everyone enjoys, in every corner, alley and square.
Every step, every cobbled path and memories, a recording from the past, with knights and janissaries, with Levantine Cretans, hodzas and dervishes who lived, passed, fought, suffered and rejoiced in this place. The history of the city of Chania goes back to the 2nd millennium BC and it is connected with the history of Crete as a whole. The glow of the Minoan period was originally identified with eastern Crete, but the excavations of recent decades revealed the Minoan spread in the prefecture of Chania but also in Chania itself. Especially in the Early Minoan period (3rd millennium BC) on the hill of Kastelli, in the center of the later historical city of Chania, an organized settlement was created with luxurious houses, the city of Kydonia.
The proximity of the settlement to the sea, but also to the fertile hinterland, allowed its flourishing which continued in the 2nd millennium BC. The settlement extended beyond the hill of Kasteli, in the area of Splantzia, and south to the Municipal Garden, where archaeologists found vaulted and chambered tombs.
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