FBU4250429: Remains of the Ancient City of Phalasarna. West coast of Crete. The city was inhabited, in the Minoan period, in the archaic and the classical years. At its peak between the middle of the 4th century BC and 67 BC., it was destroyed by the Romans, because it turned to piracy and its harbour went out of use. / Bridgeman Images
FBU4250582: Archaeological site of Gournia. Street system, storage and workshop houses of the palace from the west aera. Upright unworked stone slab deliberately set into the pavement of the street interpreted as a sacred stone. Gournia is the best preserved of all Minoan cities, and has been characterized as the “” Pompei Minoan Crete””. The cities has been found as it is now and has never been rebuilt. Gournia offers a picture of the daily life of the Minoan, who were engaged in agricultural, animal husbandry, fishing and vase-making as shown by the tools discovered in the settlement. Crete / Bridgeman Images
FBU4250636: Archaeological site of Gournia. Gournia is the best preserved of all Minoan cities, and has been characterized as the “” Pompei Minoan Crete””. The city has been found as it is now and has never been rebuilt. Gournia offers a picture of the daily life of the Minoan, who were engaged in agricultural, animal husbandry, fishing and vase-making as shown by the tools discovered in the settlement. / Bridgeman Images
FBU4250328: View over the old tonw and the port of Chania, With The Giali Tzami Mosques (Mosques of the sea side) also known as the Kioutsouk (little) Hassan. It is a bright example of the Islamic art of the Renaissance. Work of an armenian architect, this Mosques is the only preverved Mosques of the city of Chania that was built during the second half of the 17th Century. Chania, Crete. / Bridgeman Images
FBU4245518: Crenellations and loopholes at the top of the Medieval Castle of Kolossi, Built in the 13th century (1210) by the martial order of Hospitallers of Jerusalem The castle was rebuilt by Louis De Magnac, Grand Commander of the order of Hospitallers, in the 15th century (1454) Limassol region, Cyprus / Bridgeman Images