Comparisons are utterly inadequate.
It is home to perhaps a thousand people. It has courtyards, reception rooms, apartments for the king and queen, workshops, storerooms, shrines, a whole wing of private apartments. It is a self-contained city in itself. Appearance F irst impressions are the most lasting. Traveling along the main road from Amnissos to Knossos, the palace slowly emerges into view on the hillside ahead.