Church of the Annunciation of the Theotokos
Gothic-revival cathedral rebuilt from ruins after a Knights-era gunpowder blast, now frescoed in Byzantine style.
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This guide to the Church of the Annunciation of the Theotokos in Rhodes opens on a building that is a copy of a church that blew itself up, after gunpowder stored by the Knights of Saint John detonated in 1856 and leveled the original. You'll hear how architects working under Florestano di Fausto rebuilt it from old sketches in the 1920s, and how the finished church changed hands when Rhodes joined Greece. It follows what the building became afterward, and the feast-day tradition still tied to this square each March.
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