Rhodes (city)
Rhodes is the capital of Rhodes island and Dodekanisa prefecture. It is a big city and very touristic mainly during summer period. Its population is at about 50.000 inhabitants but in the summer its population increases a lot. It is located in the north of Rhodes island. It has a big port where big cruise ships come all the time. Rhodes is very beautiful city with many sights. The most interesting sight is the big castle which it is built at the crusade period by Ioannites Knights. In the antiquity on the port of Rhodes there was the gigantic statue of the Sun God which was named Colossus of Rhodes. The statue was destroyed because of a powerful earthquake in the Roman period.
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Apollo Temple at the Acropolis of Rhodes.
Depiction of Rhodus (Rhodes Town) and its distinctive three-layered defensive walls. Site of the 30 metre high Colossus of Rhodes, which was destroyed in an earthquake in 226 BC.
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Gate d'Amboise in the Old town of Rhodes, Greece
Doppelseite, aus Conrad Grünenberg: Beschreibung der Reise von Konstanz nach Jerusalem. Bodenseegebiet, um 1487. Badische Landesbibliothek Karlsruhe, Cod. St. Peter, pap. 32.
View of the Suleymaniye Mosque
Evangelismos church at the port (former San Giovanni), by Florestano Di Fausto.
View of the Market (Nea Agora) of Mandraki, built during the Italian period by Florestano Di Fausto.
Palazzo del Governo, another work of Di Fausto, now the Prefecture of the Dodecanese.
Rhodes courthouse (Di Fausto)
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