Nikos Kazantzakis Museum
The Nikos Kazantzakis Museum is a museum in Myrtia village in the Heraklion regional unit of Crete, in Greece. It is 20 km south of the town of Heraklion and it is dedicated to the life and work of the famous writer Nikos Kazantzakis, a 9 times candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature and known worldwide for his book "Zorba the Greek" and "The Last Temptation of Christ".Photo: Pylambert, Public domain.
- Type: Museum
- Description: museum in Crete, Greece
- Address: Μυρτιά, 70100
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Monastery Agarathos.
Monastery Agarathos
Church
The Agarathos Monastery, officially the Holy Monastery of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary, is a Greek Orthodox monastery situated near the village of Sgourokefali in the Heraklion region of central Crete, Greece. Monastery Agarathos is situated 3½ km east of Nikos Kazantzakis Museum.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Myrtia and Astraki.
Myrtia
Village
Photo: C messier, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Myrtia is a village in the northern part of the municipal unit Nikos Kazantzakis, Crete, Greece. It is 15 km from Heraklion. It is situated at an altitude of 365 meters from the sea.
Nikos Kazantzakis Museum
- Categories: biographical museum, tourism, and tourist attraction
- Location: Archanes-Asterousia, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, Balkans, Europe
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Latitude
35.23491° or 35° 14′ 6″ northLongitude
25.20928° or 25° 12′ 33″ eastOpen location code
8G7766M5+XPOpenStreetMap ID
node 5169462643OpenStreetMap feature
tourism=museumWikidata ID
Q4306167
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Spanish—“Nikos Kazantzakis Museum” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Museu Kazantzakis”
- Chinese: “尼可斯·卡赞扎基斯博物馆”
- Dutch: “Nikos Kazantzakis Museum”
- Finnish: “Níkos Kazantzákis -museo”
- French: “musée Níkos-Kazantzákis”
- French: “Musée Níkos-Kazantzákis”
- German: “Nikos Kazantzakis Museum”
- Greek: “Μουσείο Καζαντζάκη”
- Greek: “Μουσείο Νίκου Καζαντζάκη”
- Polish: “Muzeum Nikosa Kazantzakisa”
- Russian: “Музей Никоса Казандзакиса”
- Spanish: “Museo Kazantzakis”
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Highlights include Metamorfosis Sotiros and Evangelismos tis Theotokou.
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