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The site lies 25 km southeast of Rethymno, on a narrow northern spur of Mount Ida, the highest mountain in Crete. The Museum of Ancient Eleutherna was inaugurated on 19 June 2016 [3] and is the fourth museum in Greece exclusively focusing on a single archaeological site, after the museums of Olympia, Delphi and Vergina.
The Archaeological Museum of Rethymno is a museum in Rethymno, Crete, Greece. The building that houses the museum is the church of San Francesco, built by the Barozzi family around 1530. Gallery
This list is of the declared archaeological sites of Greece located within the Ionian Islands region, comprising the regional units of Cephalonia, Corfu, Ithaca, Lefkada, and Zakynthos. [ 1 ] Archaeological sites
Eleutherna (Ancient Greek: Ἐλεύθερνα), also called Apollonia (Ancient Greek: Ἀπολλωνία), was an ancient city-state in Crete, Greece, which lies 25 km southeast of Rethymno in Rethymno regional unit. Archaeologists excavated the site, located on a narrow northern spur of Mount Ida, the highest mountain in Crete.
It is protected by an Ottoman-era ravelin, which now serves as the Archaeological Museum of Rethymno. [12] Two smaller gates are located in the west and north sides of the fortress. A number of buildings are located within the Fortezza, including: the Mosque of Sultan Ibrahim, which was formerly the Cathedral of St Nicolas. [13]
The sculpture was discovered during the time when talks were taking place by the municipality of Rethymno about acquiring the rampart of the town's fortress and converting it into an archaeological museum, when a resident informed the local archaeological ephorate of the existence of an ancient statue buried deep somewhere in a local man's estate. [3]