Sun 10.Mar.2013
Rhodes, Greece
The ripples and reflections will be back, but today I miss Rhodes on dry land.
So, back to an old tradition - a stroll around the city, old, new, and modern.
"Destination, seen unclearly."
P. Lesh,
P. Monk
Empty honey jars, bearing witness to weeks of visits to the Thursday street market.
Doesn't the Grandmaster's Palace look grandly medieval from across the moat like this?
A detail of the iron-clad wooden door of the medieval D-Amboise gate, beneath the
Grandmaster's Palace.
The now-abandoned little Byzantine Church of St. Spyridon, and it's little tower that
looks like a mini-minaret.
The bastion and Tower of the Virgin, guarding the medieval St. Athanasiou Gate, now known
colloquially as San Francisco Gate.
At the end of the Great Siege of 1522, Suleiman the
Magnificent is said to have entered the city through this gate, and subsequently ordered it sealed
so that no future conquerors could do the same. The Italians re-opened it in 1922 for the
quadricentennial of the siege.
A familiar Rhodes landmark - cliche, even - The ancient harbor entrance.
Sidewalk near the Liberty Gate.
Yacht.
Ancient ruins and future ruins, south of the medieval city.