Rhodes Town Windmills description and photos - Greece: Rhodes (Topic)

Rhodes Town Windmills description and photos - Greece: Rhodes. Detailed information about the attraction. Description, photographs and a map showing the nearest significant objects. The name in English is Rhodes Town Windmills.

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One of the favorite places for locals and visitors to Rhodes is undoubtedly Mandraki harbor, which for almost 2500 years was the main port of the island. On one side, the harbor is protected by a narrow pier (about 400 m in length), where you will see three medieval windmills, which have been perfectly preserved to this day.

Rhodes mills were built after the island was in the power of the knights. Hospitallers, who made it the center of their Order. It was during the time of the Great Masters that Rhodes was thoroughly fortified, massive fortress walls also grew around the administrative center of the island, where the main residence of the Masters, the Palace of the Grand Masters, was also erected. The city was reliably protected both from the land and from the sea. The fortress wall passed along the port pier, here was also one of the entrances to the fortress, known as the Mill Gate. The gate received this original name because of the 13 windmills located on the pier. It was here that the merchant ships arriving at the port of Rhodes once unloaded grain. Unfortunately, the fortress wall was destroyed long ago, but of the fourteen mills, three have been perfectly preserved to this day and today are one of the most famous and popular local attractions, as well as an important architectural and historical monument.

In one of the windmills mills is the office of the Hydrographic Service of the Greek Navy. Here you can also get acquainted with an entertaining exposition of various hydrographic and oceanographic instruments, as well as a photo archive and an impressive selection of historical nautical charts.

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