Knossos palace
If you find yourself on Crete then visit of Knossos, island’s most famous and splendid archaeological site is a must. The ruins of Knossos that cover 22,000 sqm became famous throughout the world in 1900 when the English archaeologist Arthur Evans brought to light the Minoan civilization, the earliest European ancient civilization.
The Knossos palace built between 1,700 BC and 1,400 BC was allegedly constructed for mythic King Minos and is also associated with the myth of the Labyrinth, an elaborate structure designed by legendary artificer Daedalus and his son Icarus to hold the Minotaur, a creature that was half-man, half-bull.
Knossos ruins located in the suburbs of the capital city of Crete, Heraklion is a great jaunt especially in combination with the Archaeological Museum of Heraklion where are exhibited the original frescoes from the palace of Knossos and other finest archaeological finds of Crete from the Neolithic to the Archaic period in Greece (5,000 BC – 400 BC).
