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Across the pebbled street from the Museum of Modern Greek Art, take in the remains
cient ruins in the Old Town.
GOOGLE MAP
( 22410 72674; Plateia Argyrokastrou; admission €3; 8.30am-2.40pm Tue-
Sun)
houses an eclectic array of artefacts from around the Dodecanese. It's chock-a-block
with instruments, pottery, carvings, clothing and spinning wheels and gives a colourful
view into the past. Captions are sparse; pick up explanatory notes at the door.
In the atmospheric 15th-century knights' hospital down the road is the
Museum of Ar-
chaeology
(Plateia Mousiou; admission €5; 8am-4pm Tue-Sun)
. Its biggest draw is the ex-
quisite
Aphrodite Bathing,
a 1st-century-BC marble statue recovered from the local
seabed.
Wander up the
Avenue of the Knights
(Ippoton) that was once home to the knights
themselves. They were divided into seven 'tongues' or languages, according to their
place of origin - England, France, Germany, Italy, Aragon, Auvergne and Provence -
and each group was responsible for protecting a section of the bastion. The Grand
Master, who was in charge, lived in the palace. To this day the street exudes a noble, for-
bidding aura.
First on the right, if you begin at the eastern end of the Avenue of the Knights, is the
inns.
France; Ippoton)
, embellished with a statue of the Virgin and Child. Next door is the resid-
ence of the Chaplain of the Tongue of France. Across the alleyway is the
Inn of
was originally a knights' church with an underground passage linking it to the palace
across the road.
by the Turkish siege and then destroyed by an explosion in the mid-1800s, the Italians re-