Original purpose: gathering place
Affiliation: Masonic (?)
Current purpose: city administration
Open to public: lower level only
A beautiful building sits in the fountain square of Heraklion, main city of the island of Crete in Greece. It is called the Venetian Loggia. All tourist guides describe it as a place where Venetian aristocrats used to gather to discuss daily affairs. The building has two levels: the lower one is in Doric style and the upper one is in Ionic. The border between the levels displays collection of various symbols, and the roof is adorned with obelisks on each corner. We have not uncovered any distinctive reasons for this, so we are inclined to speculate that this at some point was a Masonic lodge (or Loggia).
Lower level atrium.Location on Googel Maps.
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