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When Cretan partisans kidnapped General Kreipe, head of the occupying forces on the island, the Germans unleashed a terrible reprisal here.
Today it houses the Museum of Icons and Sacred Objects — a wealth of art from churches and monasteries across the island, including six large icons by celebrated Cretan artist Mikhaíl Damaskinós.
At the beginning of the 20th century, the Cretan council decided to open a leper colony on the island; whether this was an attempt to force the Turks to leave is open to debate but the disease was rampant on the main island and Spinalónga’s position — offshore yet not too remote — was considered ideal for study of the disease and a quarantine for its sufferers.
Though the cave itself is not impressive by Cretan standards, it held a powerful sway over its ancient people.
Five kilometers (3 miles) directly south of the Iráklion is Knossós, now famed worldwide as the village where Sir Arthur Evans (then director of the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford) found proof that the Cretan civilization of myth had been based on reality.