WALK AROUND THE VENETIAN WALLS

As part of the "Walking in the city" program, 25 students of the school had the opportunity to attend a comprehensive and thorough information about one of the most important fortified monuments of our city, the Venetian walls.

The briefing was given by Ms Athina Sfakaki, a member of the association of professional tour guides of Crete and a writer, who, always willing to contribute to society and highlight the cultural heritage of our country, gladly accepted our invitation in order to present to us the largest and best preserved Monument of Fortified Architecture of the Eastern Mediterranean

On Tuesday at 5-3 Mrs. Sfakaki came to school presenting to the students of the group an excellent power point about the historicity of the Venetian walls. On Monday, at 11-3, the briefing continued and ended with the tour of the monument.

The guided tour started from the trench of the Vittouri rampart and passed through the Jesus gate, where it now hosts a permanent exhibition about the writer N. Kazantzakis. The gate is one of the most beautiful examples of Renaissance architecture in the Venetian city. Afterwards, the tour continued to the gallery which today functions as a place of remembrance for the National Resistance in Crete, as it was here that prisoners of the Germans were imprisoned in World War II. The group ended up at the largest and highest bastion of Martinego where the tombs of N. & E. Kazantzakis are located. Here the students recited passages from the great Cretan author, played and danced.

The school warmly thanks Ms. Athina Sfakaki who, with a lot of love for the city and with high professionalism, volunteered the thorough information and the interesting tour.

At the same time, through the educational visit, the student group had the opportunity to escape for a while, from the demands of the school program, as in this way entertainment, relaxation and fun were combined with knowledge, intellectual cultivation and aesthetic pleasure respectively.