Archeological museum and other Heraklion, Greece Local Custom Tips

The Heraclion archeological museum is pretty good ,hosting all the findings from Knossos and Minoan culture in general.
Photo of the 'prince with lilies' ,a fresco from the palace of Knossos.

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This is the famous disc of Faistos a hieroglyphic wrighting that has never been decoded (even though i think it's a song about a man that is crazy with his wife ,but thats another story)

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Cretan music is unique in Greece.It's a kind of traditional music that has the privilige to be still alive and going,because in Crete ,even young people love it and many of them get to learn to play the "lyra".It is based on a special poetry (mantinada) that is being improvised on the instant.In its pure form one man says the first verse and another one responds with the second verse.They talk about serious matters of life in a kind of popular wisdom that can sometimes be astonishing.But you won't be lucky enough to find yourself in a situation like this ,because poetry is born usually at family or company gatherings.(of course you won't understand the words also,even I miss some of the Cretan idioms).

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