Important
architectural monuments of the period that still survive today are the portals
(gates) for the entrance to the city and the exit of the population to the
countryside. The portal of the pier and the portal of the arsenals (none of
them survives today) were built for the communication with the port. The portal
of St. George for the communication with the eastern parts of the city,re-opened
and offered to the circulation of the pedestrians, the portal of Jesus (known
as New Gate) for the communication with the south parts, is situated in the
south part of the fortified enclosure and the portal of Pantocratoras (today
known as the Gate of Chania) for the communication with the western parts
of the city. Apart from these there were others secondary ones of military
or other character as is today the reconstructed one of Bhethleem. Lastly,
the gate of Dermata, approximately in the middle of the homonymous gulf (today
only its exit to the city has survived) was built for the communication with
the sea at this area.