Firkas Fortress

On the northwest side of the harbor of Chania, the Venetians built the Revellino del Porto, a fortification sufficient to deter any hostile threat to the port. The construction began around the mid-16th century and completed a few years before the fall of the city to the Turks in 1645. The buildings of the west wing have two floors with tall rooms. Inside the space was landscaped with appropriate buildings into barracks and munitions depots. He was also the headquarters of the military governor of the city. In the middle of the courtyard is a large vaulted cistern, which collects rainwater in roofs. The north side of Revellino occupies the band of six contiguous canopy where there were large cannon, one in each dome, designed so that the fire of the guns covering the harbor entrance. The vaulted rooms used as prisons shot from the years of Ottoman rule until the years of civil war. In a corner turret of the fortress was erected symbolically December 1, 1913 the flag of the Union of Crete with Greece.