Kolona Harbor
Medieval supply harbor once sealed at night by an iron chain slung from a fortified tower.
This guide to Kolona Harbor in Rhodes centers on the iron chain that once stretched across the water here, sunk by day and hauled taut by night to control every merchant ship entering the medieval city's supply harbor. It follows why this harbor mattered so much to the Knights of Saint John, who taxed the grain, timber, wine and cloth that fed a fortified city unable to feed itself, and the tower built between 1396 and 1421 under Grand Master Philibert de Naillac that anchored the chain. It also points you toward Saint Paul's Gate, finished under d'Aubusson, through which every taxed sack once passed into the old city's markets.
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