Martinengo Bastion

This guide to the Martinengo Bastion in Heraklion follows the funeral of Nikos Kazantzakis, the writer behind Zorba the Greek, whose novels pushed him to the edge of excommunication and left the Orthodox Church unwilling to grant him a normal grave. It traces his death from leukemia in Germany in 1957 and the procession of thousands of Cretans who carried his coffin up onto the largest of the city's seven Venetian bastions. Listen for what this fortress endured long before it became his resting place.