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at least since 1588 near the clock tower.66 Clock towers as highly sophisticated
instruments that controlled time broadcasted another aspect of state control
recalling the famous example in Venice itself. In Candia the Duke Giacomo
Barbadigo in 1463 set up a clock on the western side of the bell tower of the
66 Jordan Dimakopoulos, “Μεγάλη βρύση, μιά βεvετσιάvικη κρήvη τoυ Ρεθύμνoυ” [“The
Great Fountain, a Venetian Fountain of Rethymnon”], Κρητικά Χρονικά 22 (1970), 322–43.
The rector Rimondi also built another three fountains in the city, which do not survive.
Basilicata’s view of Rethymnon in 1627 clearly shows the piazza with the loggia, the foun-
tain and the clock tower. See Gerola, Monumenti veneti, 4:111, fig. 68. The clock tower of
Rethymnon, built in the late 16th century and decorated with reliefs representing the lion
of St Mark and coats of arms, was also located on a monumental square tower overlook-
ing the piazza. Evliya Çelebi reported that the tower of the clock was used as a prison in
Ottoman times. See George C. Miles, “Evliya Chelebi’s Visit to Rethymnon,” in Πεπραγμένα
Γ ́ Διεθνούς Κρητολογικού Συνεδρίου [Proceedings of the Third International Cretological
Congress], 3 vols. (Athens 1974), 3:220–24, esp. 223; Gerola, Monumenti veneti, 3:71–75,
and Jordan Dimakopoulos, “Rethymniaka,” in Gerhard Mercator: the Renaissance Man of
Duisburg (Athens, 1991), p. 53.
figure 10.7 Zorzi Corner, view of Candia, c. 1625.
Courtesy of the Biblioteca Marciana, VENICE.