Later we walked the harbor town of Hania, taking in a few art exhibits in old maritime warehouses and then walking through the winding cobblestone streets of the old city. The architecture along the harbor was mostly Venetian, as Crete was purchased and occupied by the Venetians for a lengthy period in the 1400s. We hear the Christian Venetians were much better tolerated by Cretans than the Muslim Turks. We visited a small taverna that featured local Cretan musicians playing the laouta (somewhat like a bouzouki) and the lyra (looking like a violin but held in a very different fashion).