Nikos Kazantzakis Museum

This guide to the Nikos Kazantzakis Museum in Myrtia, near Heraklion, opens with a letter from the Holy Synod threatening to excommunicate the writer over his novels, and the four-word reply he sent back. It traces the family house where he stayed as a guest, the 1983 opening arranged by relative Yiorgos Anemoyannis, and the six hundred fifty manuscripts, letters and notebooks his widow Eleni later donated. Look for the letters tied to The Last Temptation of Christ, the novel that drew the church's fury.