Κρήνη Μοροζίνη, πλατεία Ελευθερίου Βενιζέλου (Λιονταριών), Ηράκλειο

In the heart of Heraklion, Eleftheriou Venizelou Square, still known to locals as the Lion Square, holds a fountain that has anchored civic life since 1628. Built in the Byzantine era, it is a public waterwork of real presence, its marble carved into four stone lions whose forms have been worn smooth by centuries of hands and weather. They support the large central basin, and water once flowed from their mouths. Around this spot the city has gathered through Hellenistic, late antique, Byzantine, Ottoman, and modern times, layers of history meeting at a single flowing source.