Medieval City of Rhodes
Fortified medieval old town of stone walls, cobbled lanes, and Gothic knights' inns encircling a working city.
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This guide to the Medieval City of Rhodes opens in the summer of 1522, with Ottoman sappers digging in the dark beneath the moat. From there it turns to the Knights Hospitaller who ruled the island, the Byzantine defences they thickened over generations, and an earlier siege in 1480 that the walls had already survived. Best heard standing on the edge of the moat, looking up at the face of the wall.
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