Polyrrhenia (modern Polirinia or Polyrinia), is some 7km inland from Kissamos in the prefecture of Chania of Crete. It was an important Archaic Period settlement co-temporaneous with Lato and Prinias.[1]
Polyrrhenia was a Hellenistic port city which continued to flourish in the Roman period, when the center shifted to its erstwhile port, Kisamos, and in this urbanistic configuration lasted into Byzantine times. According to Strabo it was an Achaean foundation. A small town now occupies the site, where rock-cut tombs, vestiges of ruined and an acropolis remain. A Roman aqueduct built in the age of Hadrian improved water supplies. Systematic archaeological excavations have been conducted at the site since 1986.