All About The Hotels In Heraklion, Crete

The hotels heraklion crete are located in one of the most beautiful and interesting spots in Crete. Heraklion is a city with an immensely rich history that still maintains all the aspects of a modern, cosmopolitan place. The sights that someone can visit in Heraklion are plenty. There lie some of the oldest monuments and specimens of the first civilization of Europe, ancestors of Western Civilization. In the centre of the city, one can find many monuments of the mediaeval times of Crete, which demonstrate its great prosperity during those years. Many of the hotels heraklion crete are close to the port, where one can meet the first great monument, the Loggia that today houses the Municipal Council and part of the Services of the Municipality of Heraklion. The Loggia, which was the Club of the Duke and the officials of Crete, adorned with sculptural coats of arms, trophies, with 82 fronts etc. gathered for centuries the lords for their leisure and games as well as their official ceremonies. Its galleries date back from the 14th century while it took its final form at the beginning of the 17th. Close to the hotels heraklion crete, north and east of the Loggia, in the homonymous square, is the church of Agios Apostolos Titus, founder of the Christian church of Crete. In the years of Venetian rule it was the centre of Christian Crete and the pilgrimage to the temple was considered to be equivalent to a pilgrimage to the Holy Land.