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Sea Gate

TIME : 2016/2/18 17:15:31

Also known as St Chrysogonus' Gate (Vrata Sv Krševana), this port-facing gate was built in 1573 and sports the Venetian lion and part of a Roman triumphal arch. The inscription is a memorial to the 1571 Battle of Lepanto, where the Ottoman fleet was defeated off western Greece.