Venetian Loggia
Palladian-style Venetian noblemen's clubhouse of arcaded stone, nearly demolished in nineteen oh four and rebuilt over decades.
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This guide to the Venetian Loggia in Heraklion opens in 1904, when workmen arrived with hammers under orders to tear down the condemned building, before the demolition abruptly stopped for reasons no record explains. It traces the loggia back to around 1628, when the Venetian governor Francesco Morosini built it as a clubhouse for Venetian nobles, modeled on Vicenza's Basilica Palladiana, then follows its slide through Ottoman rule and earthquake damage. Listen for the Doric columns below and the Ionian arches above.
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