Archaeological Museum

A sunkissed rock lion invites people into the magnificent 15thcentury Knights’ Hospital which holds Rhodes’ superb archaeology museum. Exhibits range through several upstairs galleries, and round beautiful gardens to a annexe that is open shorter hours at summer (9am to 4.50pm). Highlights include the lovely Aphrodite Bathing marble statue from the very first century BC, a pavilion displaying wall-mounted mosaics, and also a rebuilt burial site in 1630 BC that maintained that a helmeted warrior along with his horse.

Knights’ Quarter

Essentially the Knights of St John, an occupying army altered the Old Town’s northern segment during the 15th and 14th centuries, to create what’s known now as the Knights’ Quarter. Taking care to protect themselves from the populace as well as offenses, the knights erected a palace in addition to mighty mansions.

Palace of the Grand Master

From the surface, this magnificent palace looks far as it did erected by the Knights Hospitaller. Throughout the 19th century, nevertheless , it was ruined by an explosion, hence the inner is now an Italian renovation, performed from the’18th year of the Fascist Era’ (1940). Dreary chambers up stairs hold artworks, and so the many interesting segments are the historical museums downstairs, one devoted to ancient Rhodes and one other towards the medieval history of the island.

Street of the Knights

Bucolic and significantly prohibiting, the Street of the Knights (Ippoton) was dwelling from the 14th century into the Knights Hospitaller who ruled Rhodes. The knights were divided in to seven’tongues’languages or languages, depending on their birthplace — England, Auvergne, Germany, Italy, Aragon, France and Provence for a certain section of their fortifications. As wall displays explainthe street carries an’inn’, or palace. Its modern appearance owes much to restorations throughout the 1930s.

Hora

The central district, south of the Street of the Knights of Even the previous Town, is known as the Hora. Having gained its appearance following the Ottoman takeover of 1522, it is referred to as the Quarter. The most important of many churches that became mosques is the vibrant, pink-domed Mosque of Süleyman, in the very best of Sokratous. Next Door, the Muslim Library, founded in 1793 by Turkish Rhodian Ahmed Hasuf, homes Persian and Arabic manuscripts plus Hand Written Korans.

Jewish Quarter

The Jewish Quarter, an enclave of narrow lanes from the Oldtown’s South East corner, Centers on Plateia Evreon Martyron (Square of the Jewish Martyrs). Now all too quiet and dilapidated, it was home to a people of 5500. Half fled in the 1930s, while 1673 Jews were deported to Auschwitz in 1944. Even the Jewish Museum of Rhodes, entered via the 1577 Kahal Shalom Synagogue — the oldest synagogue in Greece — tells the complete story.

Old Town Walls

Rhodes’ Old Town is rare in preserving its fortifications allbut intact. On weekdays, people can grasp their sheer scale by walking an extensive, grassy (and largely unrailed) 1km stretch of their ramparts, by the Grand Master’s palace to St John’s Gate. You receive views of the domes, minarets and gardens within the Old Town, although there isn’t any shade; also pass the gigantic Bastion of St George, and look from the profound moat.

Old Town Moat

The moat under the oldtown ramparts was only a defensive ditch. Now landscaped with ample lawns and blossoms, as a park, it’s really a terrific place. It is available through stairways at the heart of St Athanasios and St Anthony; or from the gardens nearby Liberty Gate in the north; at Akandia Gate in the southeast. Watch out for heaps of stone cannonballs, fired by Ottoman besiegers in 1480 and 1522.

Modern Greek Art Museum

The gallery of this Modern Greek Art Museum, close to the New Town’s southern point, holds paintings, paintings, engravings and sculptures from some of the biggest 20thcentury artists of Greece. The real highlight is that the top floor, devoted as a result of a bequest from his widow to the notable paintings of Valias Semertzidis (1911–83), whose job ranged from depictions of wartime hardship and struggle for Rhodian landscapes.

Acropolis of Rhodes

Now known as the Acropolis of Rhodes, the site of This Early Hellenistic city of Rhodes stretches up the slopes of Monte Smith west of the Oldtown. Just a few of ruins are restored, including an elongated, tree-lined stadium from the 2 nd century BC. Steps climb from a theatre, used for lectures by the Rhodes School of Rhetoric (whose students comprised Cicero and Julius Caesar), to the crude columns of the Temple of Pythian Apollo.

Muslim Library

Now known as the Acropolis of Rhodes, the site of This Early Hellenistic city of Rhodes stretches up the slopes of Monte Smith west of the Oldtown. Just a few of ruins are restored, including an elongated, tree-lined stadium from the 2 nd century BC. Steps climb from a theatre, used for lectures by the Rhodes School of Rhetoric (whose students comprised Cicero and Julius Caesar), to the crude columns of the Temple of Pythian Apollo.

Jewish Museum of Rhodes

The Jewish presence on Rhodes dates back to the 2nd century BC, though a influx of Jewish refugees in Spain caused the invention of a local’Ladino’ dialect blending Hebrew and Spanish. This fascinating museum, entered via the 1577 Kahal Shalom Synagogue, celebrates the foundation of the area through photos and documents, and mourns its tragic end using mass deportations to Auschwitz in 1944.

Mosque of Süleyman

Rhodes’ Old Town bears legacies out of its Ottoman past. Many churches were converted throughout the Turkish era, although most are now dilapidated along with more houses of worship were built by scratch. The most important is the pink-domed Mosque of Süleyman, beautifully situated at the top of Sokratous. Sadly, although Builtin 1522 to commemorate the Ottoman defeat of the knights, it had been revived in 1808 isn’t open to visitors.

Roloi Clock Tower

Commanding that the point in the Old Town, this sturdy clock tower provides a panorama. Dating originally from the 7th century, an explosion in 1856 damaged it, also rebuilt together with elements. Visitors climb 5 3 steep wooden actions to attain a low-ceilinged room with views. The entry fee includes a free drink in the pleasant terrace cafe below.

Panagia tou Kastrou

Round from the tourist area and Archaeological Museum, that 11th-century church retains its initial form, even after four centuries as a mosque and severe intrusion damage it’s currently basically a clear shell, used to display icons from the 15th to the 19th centuries. Visitors may wander walls that are hard contrary to town, into its courtyard.

Decorative Arts Collection

This tiny little museum consists of a large white-walled area, filled to the brim with everyday vernacular items from the 18th and 19th centuries. From pots and plates to painted and carved wooden panels, rugs and wallhangings, every thing is bursting with colour.

D’Amboise Gate

Place in the flank of the walls, also completed 1512 under the ruler of grand-master Emery d’Amboise, probably the approach into the Old Town is protected from two concentric towers created to withstand Ottoman cannons.

St Anthony’s Gate

The gate which leads into the Old Town near the palace, also an 200m walk in from the D’Amboise Gate. Italian troops entered Rhodes across the course in 1912, while the knights had their toolbox between here and St Catherine’s Gate.

Rhodes Aquarium

Standing alone at the island’s northernmost tip, the modest volcano of the newest Town is housed in a 1930s’ artdeco hydro-biological research station. A labyrinth of all sea-rock tunnels below the construction hold tanks inhabited by Aegean species such as octopuses, crabs, lobsters, scorpion fish and the newest invasive threat , lionfish.

Modern Greek Art Museum – Old Almshouse

In a prime spot in the top end of this previous Town, this small adjunct to the four-part Modern Greek Art Museum is easily confused for the entrance to the Sissitio restaurant where it shares a courtyard. Actually, though, the gallery occupies the disused church and also is useful for temporary exhibitions.

Kahal Shalom Synagogue

Built in 1577, and incorporating a floor that was fine, Kahal Shalom Synagogue is the oldest synagogue in Greece. A commemorative plaque honours the many Jews who perished under the Nazis. It’s still a place of worship and pilgrimage, although its former women’s gallery now homes the Jewish Museum of Rhode.

Liberty Gate

The busiest entrance to the Old Town, close to the sea front and Mandraki Harbour, Liberty Gate was constructed to function as a bridge into your shipyard. It had been augmented by two towers, destroyed by the Ottoman occupiers from 1910; exactly what you now see is just a reconstruction.

Municipal Art Gallery

Set on the upper floor with a grand gothic building, on your right as you go into the Old Town via Liberty Gatethis gallery is owned by the town’s four-part Modern Greek Art Museum. Its five bright rooms insure the range of 19th- and 20th-century Greek art.

Lighthouse of Agios Nikolaos

This landmark French-built lighthouse guards the entrance to Mandraki Harbour, at the location where some indicate that the Colossus of Rhodes once stood. It’s not available to People, although its ray could be seen from 18km away

Inn of Provence

Four coats of arms on the Inn of Provence Shape the shape of a cross. After Rhodes fell to the Ottomans, the building turned into a hammam (Turkish bath), while under German rule (1912–1943) it served as offices. It’s employed by the club of a women and as a house, Nowadays.