The portal from the katholikon in the Franciscan friary is now immured in the courthouse building, forming the main entrance on Dikeosinis St.

During excavation work carried out in the courtyard of the Archaeological Museum for the new extension, architectural remnants belonging to monastery buildings came to light, as well as fully intact crypts.

Remnants of the earlier church




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View of the threshold to the church at the Franciscan friary, now immured in the courthouse building as the main entrance on Dikeosinis Avenue, 2007 (photograph: Multimedia Lab)
Detail from the portal to the main monastery church, 2007 (photograph: Multimedia Lab)
Excavations in the area surrounding the Archaeological Museum, showing a skeleton that probably dates to the Cretan War (13th Ephorate of Byzantine Antiquities, Heraklion)
Excavations in the area surrounding the Archaeological Museum, showing burial crypts with skeletons that probably date to the Cretan War (13th Ephorate of Byzantine Antiquities, Heraklion)
Excavations in the area surrounding the Archaeological Museum, showing skeletons in makeshift graves, possibly of men defending Candia during the Cretan War (13th Ephorate of Byzantine Antiquities, Heraklion)
The foregate of the Franciscan friary in the area surrounding the Archaeological Museum, unearthed during excavations in 1983 (13th Ephorate of Byzantine Antiquities, Heraklion)