SMARI PLAIN ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE | Heraklion | Crete | Golden Greece
SMARI PLAIN ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE | Heraklion | Crete | Golden Greece
SMARI PLAIN ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE | Heraklion | Crete | Golden Greece
SMARI PLAIN ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE | Heraklion | Crete | Golden Greece
SMARI PLAIN ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE | Heraklion | Crete | Golden Greece
SMARI PLAIN ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE | Heraklion | Crete | Golden Greece
SMARI PLAIN ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE | Heraklion | Crete | Golden Greece

Heraklion

SMARI PLAIN ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE

Smari Plain

On the highest peak of the hill of Prophet Ilias or Trulli of the peak, in the NE. of the village of Smari, buildings of the geometric - archaic times, with a monumental rampart - fortification wall. Inside it three mega-shaped buildings and a square nave, where the worship of Athena is possible. In the deepest layer of the settlement, Middle Minoan (circa 1900 - 1600 BC) buildings, perhaps of a religious nature. Classical - Hellenistic settlement in the location of Lenika.

Editor: Fotini Anastasopoulou