The Venetian harbour
Guide
Photo: Magnus Manske · CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
FreeWalkAllow 45 min–2 hPut together by AI from open data
What you'll see
A curving quay of pastel Venetian and Ottoman houses, café tables and fishing boats, with the old arsenals where galleys were built at the eastern end.
A brief history
Venice ruled Chania for over four centuries from the 1200s and built the harbour and its long breakwater to shelter its fleet.
Tips
- Best time
- Early morning for calm water, or the evening stroll
- Cost
- Free; harbour-front cafés charge more than the lanes behind
- Allow
- 45 min–2 h
- Free days
- Always free
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Good to know
- Area
- The harbour and Topanas: The Venetian harbour, the lighthouse and the old Venetian quarter behind it: the prettiest lanes, the busiest at night and the dearest beds.
- Access
- Step-free
- Indoors or out
- Outdoors
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