Konstantinos Volanakis was a Greek painter. He is known as one of the greatest Greek seascape painters.
Konstantinos Volanakis (1902)
The Battle of Lissa (1869)
Collecting the Nets (1871)
The Inauguration of the Corinth Canal (1893)
Heraklion or Herakleion, sometimes Iraklion, is the largest city and the administrative capital of the island of Crete and capital of Heraklion regional unit. It is the fourth largest city in Greece with a municipal population of 179,302 (2021) and 211,370 in its wider metropolitan area, according to the 2011 census.
Knossos is located within the Municipality of Heraklion and has been called Europe's oldest city
The snake goddess (c.1600 BC) in Heraklion Archaeological Museum
Representation of the city of Candia and the surrounding area by Francesco Basilicata, 1618
The tomb of Nikos Kazantzakis in the Martinego bastion