DESCRIPTION
THE MONUMENT
INFORMATION
PHOTOGALLERY
 
 
 
  Administrative Information
 
 

Herakleion (Prefecture of Iraklio)

Telephone: 2810243559
Email: koules.efah.gr@gmail.com, efahra@culture.gr

 
 
Tickets
Full: €10, Reduced: €5
Ticket: 10 euros Reduced ticket 5 euro
Free admission days
6 March (in memory of Melina Mercouri)
18 April (International Monuments Day)
18 May (International Museums Day)
The last weekend of September annually (European Heritage Days)
28 October
Reduced admission for:
For information about free and reduced admission to Greek State Archaeological Sites, Monuments and Museums please press here
 
  Open

Winter:
1/11-31/3: 08.30-15.30
Last admission: 20 minutes prior to closing time
Closed on Tuesdays and on: 25-26/12, 1/1, 25/3.

Summer:
1/4-31/8: Wednesday-Monday 8.00-20.00
1/9-15/9: Wednesday-Monday 8.00-19.30
16/9-30/9: Wednesday-Monday 8.00-19.00
1/10-15/10: Wednesday-Monday 8.00-18.30
16/10-31/10: Wednesday-Monday 8.00-18.00
Last admission: 20 minutes prior to closing time
Closed on Tuesdays and on: Easter Sunday, Labor Day celebration.

Great Friday 12.00-17.00 Holy Saturday: 08.30-15.30

Holidays
1 January: closed
25 March: closed
1 May
Easter Sunday
25 December: closed
26 December: closed
 
  Amenities for the physically challenged
WC available.

A wheelchair is available.

The lift is temporarily out of service due to technical reasons.
 
  Access
By plane from various cities or by boat from Athens to Heraklion.
By car or bus to the old harbour and a short distance walk (acessible to all).
Disabilities: Priority, book in advance. Access by a ramp to castle.
 
  Suggestive Bibliography
Σπανάκης Στ., Η Κρήτη (τ. Α΄), Ηράκλειο 1964, 226-227
Τζομπανάκη Χρ., Χάνδακας, Η πόλη και τα τείχη, Ηράκλειο 1996, 282-288, 463-471
 
  Services
 
 
See also
Other museums in the same prefecture
Collection of Agios Matthaios of Sinai
Heraklion Archaeological Museum
Historical Museum of Crete
Lychnostatis Open-air Museum
Municipal Museum of the Battle of Crete and the National Resistance
Museum of Agia Aikaterini of Sinai
Museum of Cretan Ethnology
Nikos Kazantzakis Museum