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Gateway to the oldest European civilisation, Heraklion sits above the ruins of Knossos — the Bronze Age palace of the Minoan civilisation that flourished between 2700 and 1100 BCE and that produced the first written language in Europe, the first urban architecture, the first sophisticated drainage systems, and the mythology of the Minotaur in its labyrinthine palace complex — making it a city whose hinterland carries the weight of civilisation's beginning in the Western world. This context eleva...