Above: A view of the outside of the east wall of Koules Fortress (Castello a Mare).
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1 and 2 show the lion scupture and the east side of the fortress.
3 and 4 show views by the old port of Heraklion.
5 is a view along the pedestrian street 25 Avgosustou.
6 and 7 show Heraklion's city hall.
8 to 10 is the Church of Agios Titos, formerly a 19th-century mosque, now a Greek Orthodox church dedicated to St. Titus.
The original church on the site was built 961 AD, converted to a Catholic church by the Venetians and turned into a mosque by the Ottomans,
who used the bell tower as a minaret. It has been an Orthodox church since 1925.
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