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The symbols of a land of a country …of a city… of a group… EMBLEM a symbolic distinctive shape

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The emblems and symbols of Rethymno

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The symbols of a land

of a country …of a city…of a group…

EMBLEM a symbolic distinctive shape

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Europe

Asia

Africa

Crete : The crossroads of three continents

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For many centuries... UP TO NOW!

Contemporary

Venetian

Ottoman

Classical

Byzantine

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The “Great Door” or “Porta Guora”

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The entrance of the “Turkish School”

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The coat of arms of Rethymno

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Crests

• The distinctive mark of a family of aristocrats or noblemen

• It could bear a representation of animals or/and plants or of abstract shapes

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“Virtue makes the house shine, early 1609”

The Clodio crest

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The Rimondi Crest

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“The Barocci crest, Zouridi” “The Vlastos crest , Roustica»

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Door-frames

Decoration with inscriptions and floral motifs

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Decoration with inscriptions and anthropomorphous representations

Children chase birds

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…warriors

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… little angels with bows

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