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EXPERIENCE The Dodecanese Strolling at dusk in a

pedestrianized square
in Rhodes’s Old Town

2 2 "
RHODES Archaeological
Museum
OLD TOWN ⌂ Platía Mousíou § 22413
65256 # Apr–Oct: 8am–
7:40pm daily (from 1:30pm
ΠΑΛΙΑ ΠΌΛΗ ΡΌΔΌΥ Mon); Nov–Mar: 8am– Mezes Néa Rhodes New Town Sými, Kos, Hálki, Tílos,
2:40pm Tue–Sun ¢ Main
public hols
Kárpathos, Kastellórizo
~ Paradísi 15 km (9 miles) SW of Rhodes town 1 km (0.6 mile) A L . PA PAG O U Agora Eleftherías
g Kolóna and Akandiá ports @ New Market Rhodes’s Archaeological Gate
Museum is located in the
Dominated by the Palace of the Grand Masters, this New Hospital of the Knights, d’Amboise Museum of Modern PLATIA Nayarinou Gate
SYMIS
Gate
Greek Art
medieval citadel is surrounded by moats and 4 km built in 1440–89. Most famous Palace of the Temple of Venus
(2 miles) of walls. Eleven gates give access to the Old among the exhibits is the Grand Masters Collachium Inn of Inn of Panagía
The
Town, which is divided into the Collachium (Kollákio) 1st­century­BC marble of France Italy tou Kástrou
and the Bourg (Boúrgos). The former was the Knights’ Aphrodite Bathing. Other IPPOTON STREET OF THE KNIGHTS PLATIA Arnauld Gate Commercial
gems in the collection include
quarter and dates from the mid-1300s. The Bourg a 2nd­cen tury­BC head of Street Archaeological MOUSIOU Inn of Harbour
of The
housed the rest of the population, which after 1523 Helios the sun god, discovered ORFEOS THEOFILISKOU Knights Museum England AKTI Mylon
included Jews and Turks instead of Greeks, who were at the Temple of Helios on the Clock Tower LAHITOS POLYDOROU APELLOU ER MOU Marine Gate
Library of
expelled. As one of the finest walled cities in existence, nearby hill of Ágios Stéfanos Hafiz Ahmet Ağa Mosque of SOKRATOUS PLATIA Gate Virgin Mary’s PLATIA
Gate
the Old Town is now a World Heritage Site. (Monte Smith). The grave TIMOKREONDOS Süleyman the Ta Petaladika MILTIADOU IPPOKRATOUS S AKHTOURI PISIDOROU
stelae unearthed at the Magnificient ARISTOTELOUS PINDARO U
necrop olis of Kameiros A LEXANDRIDOU XENOFONTOS PLATIA PLATONOS MARTYRON ALHADEF THISSEOS KISTHINIOU A K T I P R O M I T H E O S
1 in the medieval walls. The provide a good insight into ARIONOS AG I O U FA N O U R I O U ATHINAS ESKILOU Ibrahim Pasha PL. EVREON SIMI O U Kadosh Shalom
Mosque of
PL.
5th­century­BC life. Exhibits
former was built in 1512
The Jewish
The Collachium by Grand Master Pierre also include coins, jewellery I P P O D A M O U Marco Polo Café The Bourg Quarter Synagogue
and Museum
PLATIA
This magnificent stone section d’Amboise, who famously and ceramics retrieved from ANDRONIKOU SOFOKLEOUS PERIKLEOUS Akandia
Gate
DIO NYSI OU
in the walled Old Town tradi­ resisted the first Ottoman the Mycenaean graves at Ágious In Camera P Y T H A G O R A KLEOVOULINIS DHIMOSTHENOU S TAVR ISKOU GAVALA
tionally housed the buildings assault on the town, and nearby Ialysos. Medieval Fanoúrios TLIPOLEMOU
of the Knights of St John, led from Dimokratías to the City Walls TIMACHIDA OM IROU IRINIS
includ ing the Street of the palace. Designed for defensive D I M O K R AT I A S
Knights (p168) and the Palace purposes, the Eleftherías gate 3 Agia IRODOTOU ARC . EFTHI M IOU
of the Grand Masters (p166). was built by the Italians and Athanasiou Kokkini Porta Rossa Kokkini VYRONOS
Gate
Today, the best way into the leads from Eleftherías to Medieval City Walls Gate
Collachium from Rhodes New Plateía Sýmis. This is a A masterpiece of military FIL E LL INON 0 metres 200 N
Town are d’Amboise gate and fantastic area to wander, architecture, these huge walls To Steno
the Eleftherías (Liberty) gate soaking up the atmosphere. run for 4 km (2 miles) and 400 m (440 yd) 0 yards 200
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