Lions Square - Morosini Fountain  Crete travel guide
Explorecrete.com  The Lions    The Lions Square  morosini
fountain is the lion squareEveryone who has grown up in
Heraklion knows that the square of the Morosini Fountain is the
Lions Square. However, our municipal authorities decided to make
our lives difficult by naming it Eleftheriou Venizelou Square,
honouring the Cretan statesman and later Prime Minister of
Greece who played a leading role in the struggle for the Union
of Crete with Greece.  Eleftheriou Venizelou Square (Lions
Square) is one of the busiest parts of Heraklion. It is never
quiet, unfolding its various aspects 24 hours a day, 365 days a
year. This is where travellers who arrive in Heraklion by ferry
at dawn come for a bougatsa cream pie, while they wait for the
city to wake up. Later, through the course of the day thousands
of locals and tourists will cross the square, stare at the
fountain, check out the shops, sit at a café, eat something
quick, or visit an exhibition in the Basilica of