THE ATTRACTIONS

    

Ierapetra   is a very beautiful city where  you can see interesting  attractions. Some  of them are the museum ,the Mosque ,the castle and the last one is the house where Napoleon stayed.

The museum was founded  at the end of the  19^th century.  The museum collections include Minoan, Geometrical, Archaical, Classical and Hellenistic Art. It is divided into two parts. The first includes ceramics from prehistoric to Roman times and the Second  mainly includes exhibits from the Roman period. It also has vases of the Minoan and Classical Roman civilization.

    The collection of the shrines is very interesting. The copies of the classical period in Roman time give us information  that were lost. Finally several exhibits were been stolen by collectors or destroyed during the occupation

      Venetian and Ottomans era. In the Venetian age, from the 13^th to the 17^th centuries, Ierapetra-now known by its present name-became, prosperous again. The fortress of Kales, built in the early years of the Venetian rule to protect the harbor, is a remnant of this period, although a local myth says it was built by the Genoese pirate Pescadores in 1212.In July 1798 Ierapetra made a small step into world history when  Napoleon stayed with a local family after the Battle of the Pyramids.