The Lighhouse Traditional Cache
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See the Lighthouse and the Harbor of Chania Crete, Greece! The
cache is a very small micro with log! bring a pen. It is placed
somewhere around the lighthouse!!
Beware of spectators, when looking, logging and placeing the cache
back as for it not to disapear.
Chania Venetian harbour with its lighthouse is the trademark of the
city of Chania. One rarely finds a place so full of historical
memories, which unfold before our eyes with exquisite skill through
the architecture of the buildings looking onto the Venetian
harbour, bearing scents from past times, drawing the visitor into a
nostalgic game of the senses, a mixture of East and West.
The modern restaurants, cafés and bars add to the charm of the
harbour, providing the necessary notes of life and familiar comfort
throughout the year. If you are facing the sea, to the right (east)
of Eleftherios Venizelos Square is Kastelli Hill, the area of
Chania which was first inhabited in the Neolithic period and the
site of the Minoan city of Cydonia.
On your right there is also the Turkish mosque and, past it, the
shipyards where the Venetians repaired their galleys. On your left
you can see Firkas Fortress, with the Maritime Museum of Crete next
to it.
In the summer you can enjoy a romantic stroll through the Venetian
harbour of Chania, sip your coffee or have breakfast with a view of
the lighthouse and enjoy a meal in one of the many restaurants and
ouzo shops. As night falls, the harbour remains busy and the
glimmer of the lighthouse reflected in the dark waters charms every
visitor. The harbour is so magical that even the owners; annoyingly
insistent invitations to attract customers to their tavernas will
be forgotten as soon as you ignore them and walk past.
In winter many tavernas shut to avoid the waves which wash in
unhindered over the quay opposite the harbour entrance. The cafés
and restaurants on the side past the Turkish mosque, however, are
untouched by the waves and remain open all year round. Even on
winter days, as long as the sun is out, hundreds of people come
here to enjoy the quieter aspect of the Venetian harbour, when
foreign tourists can be counted on the fingers of one hand.
The Venetian harbour of Chania was built by the Venetians between
1320 and 1356. The harbour was used for commerce and also to
control the Sea of Crete against pirates. The Venetian harbour had
room for 40 galleys, but it constantly silted up and was never very
deep, so it kept having to be dredged, a difficult job with the
equipment of the time. On its north side the harbour is protected
by a breakwater. Near the middle of this is a small bulwark like a
gun emplacement and the tiny chapel of St Nicholas.
This was where the Venetians and Turks executed condemned
prisoners. The Firkas Fortress at the harbour entrance and the St
Nicholas bastion in the middle of the breakwater defended the
harbour from raiders. Today, the Venetian harbour offers moorage
for fishing boats and other small craft, while the commercial and
passenger port of Chania is seven kilometres to the east, in Souda
Bay.
The lighthouse is a distinctive feature of the harbour. It was
built at the harbour entrance by the Venetians and restored in its
present form by the Egyptians (1830-1840). The lighthouse of the
Venetian harbour of Chania always fascinates visitors and is one of
the most-photographed monuments in Crete.
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