Guora Gate

The Guora Gate is all that is left from the Venetian fortress of Rethymnon. This brilliant door, which was named after the Venetian minister representative Giacomo Guoro, it has an opening 2.60 m wide. It used to be the fundamental access to the walled city and it prompted the focal square, where were the most essential open structures of Rethymnon the Loggia, the Rimondi wellspring, the Clock tower.

The Venetian dividers of Rethymnon were worked in 30 years 1540-1570, in light of plans by the boss specialist Michele Sanmicheli, which was disentangled, however, as works advanced. The dividers extended from the eastern sandy shoreline, where the bastion of Santa Barbara could likewise be seen, and proceeded at a 90 degree point toward the western rough shore, until the point that the foot of the Paleokastro slope where the Fortezza is. There were another two, auxiliary doors: the Sand Gate Pili tis Ammou - just before the Santa Barbara bastion and the Dello Squero Gate inverse the contemporary Municipal Park.

The city stayed unprotected from the toward the ocean side, however; along these lines, it was not anchor enough amid the strike made in 1571 by Uluj Ali, which prompted its devastation. Subsequently, the dividers were relinquished and the fortress of Paleokastro was settled on, with the goal that the city could be ensured by the Fortezza. At the point when, under the danger of a Turkish attack, it was comprehended this was insufficient, an exertion was made to repair the dividers; they turned out to be very solid, all things considered, since they withstood the attack of the Turks for 22 days.