St George Gate

We had an early Saturday morning visit to the well know Gypsy Market at Heraklion which is held on the harbour, here you can buy fruit and vegetables also clothes and footwear, followed by a hot walk round some of Heraklions Venetion walls.

Heraklion’s 16th-century walls are amongst the most obvious relics of Crete’s former Venetian rulers.

The St George Gate was built in 1565 during the Venetian period, and connected the walled city to East Crete. It was also known as the Lazaretto Gate, because it led to the Lazar House, the hospital for contagious diseases on the east coast outside the walls of Heraklion. (Note: Heraklion was struck by the plague on several occasions, the worst being the 1591-93 outbreak).