The castle in Rhodes
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Construction by the Knights
The Palace of the Grand Master is a 14th century building constructed by the Knights Of Ioannites, who possessed Rhodes and some other islands such as Kastelorizo from 1309 to 1522, at the site of an older Byzantine citadel of the 7th century AD.
According to newer research in its place, was the holy temple of the sun god and in this position the famous Colossus of Rhodes was probably set up in contrast to the earlier belief that it was located in the mandraki area, located in the place of one million the three ports of Rhodes. The palace apart from the administrative center of the Knights and residence of the Grand Master was also the seat of the ruling social and spiritual order of Rhodes.
The main entrance of the palace
The interior of the palace
Turkish occupation When the Ottomans occupied the island as a fortress, command center and prison, and in 1856 after an explosion of ammunition from a lightning strike that was kept in its basements a part of it was destroyed.
Under Italian occupation
When Rhodes arrived in the Kingdom of Italy in 1912, the Italians repaired the destroyed part, between 1937 and 1940 under the supervision of the Italian governor of the Dodecanese De Vecchi, making it the seat of the italian governor of the island but and summer residence of King Victor Emmanuel III and later Benito Mussolini, whose name is still on a huge slab near.
Today's time
After the annexation of the Dodecanese in Greece in 1948, the first floor of the palace was transformed by the Greek authorities into a museum containing various artistic creations, folk art from antiquity and the Middle Ages, weapons, medieval tombstones, jewellery, books, paintings, statues and other finds, while in general the whole building is the largest attraction of visitors to the medieval city of Rhodes.







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