Gate Bethlehem

Gate Bethlehem is located on the western side of the Venetian Walls of Heraklion and was a military gate. It leads to the north low square of Bethlehem Bastion , where there were the cannons that protected the bastion of Pantocrator .

The gate hosts cultural events and a summer cinema. In recent years, the gate hosts the exhibition " El Greco - Return to Motherland ", which consists mainly of costumes and objects used in the film El Greco of Yannis Smaragdis and is dedicated to the great Cretan painter El Greco .

The report also includes reconstructed works of El Greco.