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Stop to try the waters at the Venetian fountain — a series of lion heads spout crystal clear, cool liquid from the mountains above — before exploring the village itself.
The entrance to the important Piazza del Santo south of the city center is guarded by Donatello’s grand statue of Gattamelata, the 15th-century Venetian condottiere Erasmo da Narni, perfect ideal of a Renaissance hero, whose “honeyed cat” nickname still mystifies historians.
You’ll see remnants of the stone block walls and a Venetian arcade at the bottom of Odós Agiou Markou.
Proudly emblazoned with the Lion of St. Mark, the ports and fortifications of Iráklion (called Candia under Venetian rule, as was the whole of Crete), Chaniá, and Réthymnon bear witness to the Venetians’ ambitious public building program.
First stop, off a side road to Fusina, is Palladio’s La Malcontenta (1571), to which a too-flighty Venetian countess was sent to pine, malcontentedly, in exquisite isolation on the canal.