Venetian Walls of Heraklion

This guide to the Venetian Walls of Heraklion follows the funeral of Nikos Kazantzakis, the Cretan author of Zorba the Greek, whose writing brought him near excommunication and left the Orthodox Church unwilling to grant him a plot in the town cemetery. It traces the walls themselves, begun in 1462 and hardened over a century against the twenty-one-year Ottoman siege of Candia, and the spot on the Martinengo Bastion he chose for himself before he died. Listen for how his widow found another way to lay him to rest.