It was most probably over that same period, at the time East of the Gate there was arranged an emplacement that covered the range all over to the Mole of the Windmills that emplacements was decommissioned already in the 15th century. John), raw material taken from ancient constructions – namely, the mole and the Hellenistic ramparts – was used for the construction of the Gate of St. As the case was for the Gate of Agios Ioannis (St. As a matter of fact, this is one of the earliest constructions forming part of the fortification of the city, quite typical of the architectural influences of Provence, similar to the case of the Arnaldo Gate. Catherine since 1465 whereas before that it used to be designated as the “Gate of the Mole”, a name due to the fact that this Gate actually opened on the thoroughfare running through the centre of the Medieval City and all the way to the commercial harbour. The construction has been referred to as the Gate of St. Catherine was commissioned by Grand Master Dieudonné de Gozon (1346-1353). Much more than a city, this is a three-dimensional canvas that has to this day reflected secular power and folklore, a thrilling tale of people who made history and inspired myths through everyday life, be it in wartime or cultured peace.Ī historical source of the year 1357 has it that the construction of the Gate of St. There is hardly any of the five senses that are not aroused by the feel of the Old Town of Rhodes, so powerful is the surge of imagination, so little the soul still left to desire… So mighty is the spell of this eternal setting of a never-ending drama, thousands of years old! The protagonists of this super-production have left their indelible marks on the folklore, imprints that go far beyond art in stone, on wood or marble, because they live on, eternally vivid in the air, all around! From the Hellenistic era to the times of the Knights, from the centuries of the Ottoman rule through to the time of the Italians and well through to the annexation of the Dodecanese by mother Greece, the Island and the Medieval City of Rhodes have risen to become landmarks and symbols in the ethnography of the most dominant peoples of the Mediterranean.

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