Rhodes

Greece 2013
P000a Rhodes (Ródos), island of the Knights, located at the southern most part of the Aegean Sea and very close to the shores of Asia Minor (ancient Turkey); capital...
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P000b ... the ancient city of Rhodes was built amphitheatrically facing the sea beginning in approximately 408 BC...
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P000c The fortifications of the town of Rhodes are shaped like a defensive crescent around the Medieval town and consist mostly in a modern fortification composed of...
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P000c1 The Fort of St Nicholas... guarding the Mandraki harbor, a tower built between 1464 and 1467 at the end of a natural rock wharf; after the siege of Rhodes in...
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P000d Mandráki, the (ancient) harbor, is distinguished from the outer harbor by the 3 windmills and the fortifications at the end of the dock...
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P001 ... Rhodes in ancient times had developed into one of the most important seafaring and trading centers in the Eastern Mediterranean because of its strategic...
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P002 ... Rhodian Deer Statues (a stag and a hind, herald animal of Rhodes symboling strength and wealth), bronze statue high atop the stone column flanking the...
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P003 ... it was believed that the Colossus of Rhodes was standing here at the Mandraki harbor... Colossus of Rhodes, one of the Seven Wonders of the World; used in...
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P004 ... Colossus of Rhodes, a statue of the Greek god Helios, erected in the city of Rhodes in 280 BC, constructed to celebrate Rhodes' victory over Antigonus I...
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P005 ... uninterrupted coastline of white-golden beaches... viewed from the Saint Stefanos Hill (also known as Monte Smith)...
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P006 ... the incredible still-standing columns of the Hellenistic Temple of Apollo at the Acropolis of Ancient Rhodes; at the peak of the cliff rising above the...
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P007 ... rises above Philerimos Bay, the Philerimos Hill was the site of ancient Ialyssos (Trianda), one of three Rhodian cities that took part in the Trojan War......
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P009 ... stone-steps surrounded by cypresses leading to the gothic Monastery of Our Lady of Philerimos, dedicated to the Virgin Mary (the Life Giving Source)...
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P010 ...the monastery was built in the 15th century by the Knights of St John, on the site of an older Byzantine monastery...
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P011 .. the ruins of a baptistery in the shape of a cross...
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P012 ... according to legend, in the 13th century AD a monk arrived in the area from Jerusalem carrying an icon said to have performed miracles, placing it in a...
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P013 ... a fortress in Byzantine times, the monastery was beautifully restored by the Italians under their occupation around 1912...
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P015 ... cloisters and chapels all beautifully and suitably adorned and decorated with wall frescoes...
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P015a ... reproduced copy of the holy icon of the Virgin Mary...
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P016 ... interesting tree-shaded corridor on the flat slope of Philerimos Hill...
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