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Culture of Iraklion


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Museums

    Heraklion Archaeological Museum

    Cretaquarium

    Historical Museum of Crete

    Natural History Museum

    The Battle of Crete and National Resistance Museum

    Nikos Kazantzakis Museum

    Lychnostatis Open Air Museum

    Collection of Agia Aikaterini of Sinai

    Museum of Visual Arts

Sports

The city hosts three football clubs:

    Ergotelis FC – in Heraklion, plays in the second division.

    OFI Crete in Heraklion, plays in the first division.

    Atsalenios – Football Club of Heraklion which plays in the third division.

Famous natives

Heraklion has been the home town of some of Greece's most significant spirits, including the novelist Nikos Kazantzakis, the poet and Nobel Prize winner Odysseas Elytis and the world-famous painter Domenicos Theotokopoulos (El Greco)
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