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Heraklion Sightseeing

• History Museum on Sophocleus Venizelou. Down to the port on the left side of KOULES fortress, along the seafront - it's about half a kilometre along on your left.
• The Battle of Crete Museum. Walk down the side of the Archaeological museum on Hatzidaki and at the end, where it meets Bofor street.
• The Municipal Gallery and Basilica of St. Mark has an ever-changing variety of exhibitions just opposite "Lion Square".
• Aquarium ("CretAquarium" or "Thalassocosmos"). A 5000 square metre structure, it is both a research centre and a fun, impressive aquarium with 32 tanks representing interesting underwater Cretan sea landscapes and 50 viewing points. 2500 organisms of 200 Mediterranean marine species, from hunter sharks to lobsters, to colourful jellyfish. Placed  15 km east of Heraklion, in Gournes.
• The recently reconstructed underground Gate through the city walls, accessible from the central section of Eleftherias square. 
• The church of Agia Ekaterini Sinaites - now a theological museum, is on the edge of the square surrounding the much larger and better known Agios Minas. It has some very fine Byzantine
• The Archaeological Museum on one corner of the central Eleftherias Square collects together many of the finds from Knossos, Archanes, Phaestos, Zakros and many other archaeological sites in Crete. The museum spans a period starting several thousand years ago, through the Minoan, post-Minoan and later periods.
• The Venetian Loggia on 25th August Street , 50 metres down the street from "Lion Square" on the right, is now the city hall of Heraklion. You can walk in a take a quick look.
• The Koules Venetian Fortress on the harbour walls, built in the early 1500's. 
• The Palace of Knossos. 20-25 minutes from the centre of Heraklion. 
• One of the best known and most important for direction finding, streets in Heraklion is 25th of August Street, which has now been repaved as a pedestrian street. On the walk down 25th August Street from Dedalou to the sea is the church of Agios Titos, a beautiful building, Byzantine in origin then rebuilt in the 16th century by the Venetians. 
• Tomb of Nikos Kazantzakis The tomb is on Martinengo Bastion, at the southern corner of walls, along Plastira Street. Nikos Kazantzakis is the author of The last Temptation of Christ and Zorba the Greek. The Kazantzakis museum is nearby Varvari village where among others the exhibit includes many of the author original manuscripts, as well as photographs of his theatrical productions.