{"id":2545,"date":"2015-05-18T07:38:15","date_gmt":"2015-05-18T06:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/merrington.net\/?p=2545"},"modified":"2015-05-18T07:38:15","modified_gmt":"2015-05-18T06:38:15","slug":"rethymnon-and-the-venetian-fortress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/?p=2545","title":{"rendered":"Rethymnon and the Venetian Fortress"},"content":{"rendered":"

In his book, Crete – A Notebook, Richard Clark, talks about Rethymnon being the Serene City. \u00a0Certainly, after the busyness of Irakleion, it is delightful.<\/p>\n

Here is a city where the Venetian and Turkish heritage and architecture are still standing. You can see the old buildings and the narrow streets and walk thru Il Fortezza. \u00a0You can see the wooden balconies of Turkish and imagine the women of the harem, looking down on city streets through the shutters and feeling part of the life of the city.<\/p>\n

\"Fortezza<\/a>
Fortezza Venetian fortress c1573, architect Pallavicini<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The town began in the Mycenanean era and went into a decline. In the early 13th century, The Venetians, in their usual style, found a\u00a0harbour and built a town around it. They had an uncanny sense of good harbours that could be protected and defended. Their colonies seemed to be bring prosperity to the locals and Venetians alike. The Fortezza was built as a fortress against pirates, like Barbarossa.<\/p>\n

The city finally fell to the Turks in 1646 and they built a wonderful mosque on the site of the church Ayios Nikolas.<\/p>\n

\"Barbara<\/a>
Barbara in the Sultan Ibrahim Han mosque<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"James<\/a>
James in the Complex of Magazines, which was a large storage area at the Fortezza<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In the tiny streets we came across a wonderful bakery\u00a0Michalis Spanoudakis’s offered a fairy land of baked bread in the shape of animals. \u00a0The dolphins is my favourite.<\/p>\n

\"<\/a>
Michalis Spanoudakis’s bakery<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Our verdict: Rethymno is a charming town.<\/p>\n

Our journey so far:<\/p>\n

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In his book, Crete – A Notebook, Richard Clark, talks about Rethymnon being the Serene City. \u00a0Certainly, after the busyness of Irakleion, it is delightful. Here is a city where the Venetian and Turkish heritage and architecture are still standing. You can see the old buildings and the narrow streets and walk thru Il Fortezza. … Continue reading Rethymnon and the Venetian Fortress<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,48,9,6],"tags":[68,69],"class_list":["post-2545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventures-2","category-antiquities","category-history","category-travel","tag-venetian","tag-venetian-architecture"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3VxXq-F3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2545"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2554,"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2545\/revisions\/2554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}