Zaros Lake
Spring-fed artificial lake at the foot of a mountain, ringed by trout tanks and shaded picnic tables.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Zaros Lake near Heraklion starts twelve kilometers away, tracing a Roman pipe that carried water from these springs to the provincial capital of Gortyn two thousand years ago. You will hear how Venetian millers later put the same stream to work in the fifteen hundreds, and why the lake itself is far younger than its water, a marshy hollow the Forest Service only dammed in 1987.
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