FBU4250571: 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