Lake of Agios Nikolaos
The lake of Agios Nikolaos or lake Voulismeni is a small - formerly sweet, later connected to the sea, lake, located in the center of Agios Nikolaos in Crete. Its diameter is 137 meters and a depth of 64. Locals refer to it simply as the lagoon "pool". The lake is connected to the city port with a canal opened in 1870. Panoramic lake view offered by the park which is above it.
According to legend, the goddess Athena
bathed in it.
It is reported that members of the German army
during the retreat from the area during the
Second World War, threw part of the arms and /
or their vehicles in the lake.
Local urban legend says that the lake has no bottom. This view is probably based on the depth disproportionate in relation to the surface and / or disturbance to the surface or the water level of the residents observed during the earthquake of Santorini in 1956.
For this reason allegedly is geological relationship between the two positions, but academic research on the matter is not yet known.