Lychnostatis Open Air Museum
Hand-built open-air folk village of stone, wood and clay, raised without any machinery.
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This guide to the Lychnostatis Open Air Museum in Heraklion tells how an ophthalmology professor named Georgios Markakis spent thirty years collecting Cretan farm tools, looms and clay lamp stands, then decided to build a village to house them himself. From 1986 to 1992, he and his family raised an entire hamlet of stone, wood and clay by hand, with no machinery and just three local workers. Wander the workshops and gardens at your own pace, past the old raki still near the entrance.
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