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Where the Grand Canal empties into the lagoon stands the imposing church of Santa Maria della Salute — “la Salute” to the Venetians — is the masterpiece of Baldassare Longhena, built to mark the city’s deliverance from a plague in 1630.
As the conquerors entered the city gates in 1699, the Venetians negotiated an orderly departure, taking with them, among other Christian artifacts, the cherished head of Saint Titus.
The Minoan settlement of Petrás lies 1 km (.66 miles) to the east and it was the Venetians who made their town on this hillside location, building a fortress — the Kamárza — on its highest point.
The city center lies within the walls of a vast fortress started by the Venetians and reinforced by the Turks.
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.
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