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The most important monument of the era of the Knights in Rhodes, is the Palace of the Great Magistrate. During the 1930’s, while under Italian occupation, the building acquired its modern form, being the commanding center as well as the house of the Italian Commander. The mosaic floors of the floor are amazing.
The most important monument of the era of the Knights in Rhodes, is the Palace of the Great Magistrate. During the 1930’s, while under Italian occupation, the building acquired its modern form, being the commanding center as well as the house of the Italian Commander. The mosaic floors of the floor are amazing.
In a part of the ground floor of the Palace, in consecutive rooms, the permanent exhibition of EBA entitled «Rhodes from the paleochristianic times until Turkish occupation (1522)» is housed. In this exhibition, you can see various findings of the digs that took place in the Medieval Town (ceramics, sculptures, murals, portable pictures, small scale art works etc.)
The permanent exhibition of EBA entitled «Rhodes from the paleochristianic times until Turkish occupation (1522)» was formed in 1993, and was housed in the ground floor of the Palace.
The exhibits were organized as follows: Introduction room (from ancient ideology to christianic), Economy, Daily Life, Defense – Government, Cultural Life, Religion – Art, Architecture.
The units are accompanied by extensive explanatory documents, as well as drawings of explanatory material, which enlighten some sides of the objects ant compose the historical data and the evolution of the city during the time from 4th century BC to the beginning of the Turkish rule.
Rhodes Archaeological Museum contained prehistoric and Mycenaean artifacts, jars of the Geometric, Archaic and Classic periods, sculptures, writings, a collection of rhodian sealed jars, coins, a collection of the byzantine and medieval era as well as a folklorar collection.
The Museum Nikos Kazantzakis in Myrtia Heraklion opened on June 27, 1983 by the culture minister Melina Mercouri.
Heraklion is not just a city in the next visitor’s destination. Expresses something more, something deeper, a history of thousands of years. With this thought must learn the traveler to "read" the area beyond the mundane habits that require a visit to museums or at Knossos.
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