One of the most popular spots offering a panoramic view of Chania is the Tombs of Venizelos, a few kilometers east of the city, on the way to Akrotiri and the airport. Here are the graves of the charismatic Greek politician – and seven-time Prime Minister of Greece – Eleftherios Venizelos and his son Sophocles Venizelos, who was also Prime Minister of Greece from 1943 to 1952.
In this very spot is the small church of Prophet Ilias and the statue of Spyros Kagialedakis or Kagiale who on February 9, 1897 (Revolution of 1897), at the time of the great bombardment of the rebel Cretans by the fleet of the Great Powers, he made the body of the pole to raise up the Greek flag that the shells of the ships had thrown to the ground.