Crete - Rethymno, Archaeological Museum

 

Rick bought some of his astrophotography stuff with him, but, as usual, there's something not quite right (with the equipment, the weather, the sky, ....)

We took a different walk down to the shore

because I wanted to take a look at this little beach where I had seen people swimming. To the left of this picture is a rock pool that fills during high tide and is large enough to do laps during low tide.

We couldn't follow the shoreline all the way into town as the path is blocked by a public swimming pool (indoor and out) that is built right to the shore.

Some sort of demonstration going on in front of a public building, we skirted it and

dove back into the old town. Although cars and delivery vans do come in to this area most people seem to use scooters or Smart cars.

It must have been quite a challenge to get the modern infrastructure in, though many of the streets have new looking paving stones, they were probably originally cobblestones.

We have walked past this square a number of times, I don't know how we missed the fountain but this time we noticed it.

This is the Rimondi fountain built in 1626 during the Venetian rule. Named after the Venetian governor of the period, A. Rimondi, it continually threw water from three springs that had the form of lion heads and provided an important water source for the inhabitants of the Old Town. Around the springs, there were ancient Greek columns with elegant endings on top. Between the columns, the two preserved tablets real Liberaliatis and Fonte. A Venetian coat of arms has been installed on top of the lion heads, in the middle of the fountain.from greeka.com

My version of a "selfie" taken into a restaurant window.

The Archaeological museum was open this time and we paid our 3Euro each and were the only people there.

Quite a small museum, just the inside of a church

with quite exquisite artifacts and

very good descriptions (in Greek and English) of the finds from this area.

It also outlined, clearly, the history of the sequence of conquerors and their contributions to the island.

Rick and I went to the two huge museums in Athens last year

and are really enjoying

these more concise,

"bite sized" collections.