Kornarou Square
Renaissance fountain with a headless Roman statue beside an Ottoman fountain now serving coffee.
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This guide to Kornarou Square in Heraklion follows two fountains built centuries apart: Bembo's Renaissance fountain, crowned by a headless Roman statue and fed by Crete's first aqueduct, and a smaller Ottoman-era sebil raised in 1776 by a wealthy patron named Hadji Ibrahim Aga. You'll hear how governor Gianmatteo Bembo brought running water inside the city walls in the 1550s. Best taken slowly, pausing at each fountain in turn.
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