Dermatas Gate
Modest Venetian sea gate built cheaply into the coastal walls as a backup route to the harbor.
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This guide to the Dermatas Gate in Heraklion opens in November 1668, when French volunteers under the Count de la Feuillade came ashore to relieve Candia, as the Venetians called the city, after two decades of Ottoman siege. It also goes back to the 1590s, to the stone, the money and the forced labor behind this modest sea gate, and to the leather workshops and Jewish quarter that surrounded it. Best heard standing outside the wall, facing the sea.
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