The old town of Rhodes undeniably is able to fire one’s imagination. The city does remember medieval times. Heavy, thick, stone walls that cast shadows on strolling paths of the old town remind visitors of the past of the town. Those walls are a perfect example of the techniques of fortification that were most popular in the 14th and 15 th century. The city boasts those walls owing to the order of St John, that were designed and built to protect the town from all kinds of dangers, coming from sea or land.
Those meadiaeval walls have eleven gates leading into the old town. To their belong those ones: Eleftrias, Amboise, Panagia, Diagoras, Athanasiou and Pili Ekaterinis one.
Apart from the walls there is a Palace of the Great Masters located at the end of the Street of Great masters. Once imagination is fired many different pictures may come to mind: how did this place look in the past centuries, what did the people living there look like and what were their main occupations. In the castle there are exhibitions of fine pieces of furniture, polychrome marbles, statues carpets, oriental vases. There are 158 rooms in the cfastle yet nly 24 of them are open for the public. These are: the waiting room, the reception hall, the room of the Medousa mousaic. The place is most popular with families, probably due to its educational properties.