Today we visited Rhodes, which is only 20 kms from the Turkish coast but it is part of Greece.
Being so close to Turkey the island has a long and interesting history, with various conquerors over the centuries.
We had a tour guide with a spiel that kept everyone laughing with his irreverence!
The old city with its walls and streets is fascinating to walk through, even though the Palace of the Grand Masters is a complete rebuild after it blew up from stored gunpowder ignited during a storm in 1846.
It was rebuilt by Mussolini for the King of Italy and is full of treasures pillaged from various sites in Italy and Greece.
Much of the rest of the old city is, however, still authentic with the most complete medieval street in Europe with the Street of the Knights where all the Hospitalier Knights lived before the city was captured by the Turks in 1522.
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