The emblems and symbols of Rethymno

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

2. Crete : The crossroads of three continents
Europe
Asia
Africa

3. For many centuries... UP TO NOW!
Classical
Byzantine
Venetian
Ottoman
Contemporary

4. The “Great Door” or “Porta Guora”

5. The entrance of the “Turkish School”

6. The coat of arms of Rethymno

8. 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

9. The Clodio crest
“Virtue makes the house shine, early 1609”

10. The Rimondi Crest

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

12. Door-frames
Decoration with inscriptions and floral motifs

13. Decoration with inscriptions and anthropomorphous representations
Children chase
birds

14. …warriors

15. … little angels with bows