Museums
Heraklion Archaeological Museum
Cretaquarium
Historical Museum of Crete
Natural History Museum
The Battle of Crete and National Resistance Museum
Nikos Kazantzakis Museum
Lychnostatis Open Air Museum
Collection of Agia Aikaterini of Sinai
Museum of Visual Arts
Sports
The city hosts three football clubs:
Ergotelis FC – in Heraklion, plays in the second division.
OFI Crete in Heraklion, plays in the first division.
Atsalenios – Football Club of Heraklion which plays in the third division.
Famous natives
Heraklion has been the home town of some of Greece's most significant spirits, including the novelist Nikos Kazantzakis, the poet and Nobel Prize winner Odysseas Elytis and the world-famous painter Domenicos Theotokopoulos (El Greco)
