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A You Are Here map at the Marine or Sea Gate, the main entrance to Rhodes old town from the harbour.

"This Gate is located right across from the medieval commercial harbour and the open public space of the town where multitude civic events used to take place, assorted to the trade activities of Rhodes. The Gate was constructed in 1478 under the auspices of Grand Master Pierre d’ Aubusson (1476-1503), in what is a series of deliberate resemblances to the main Gate to the town of Villeneuve- lès-Avignon, commissioned by the French sovereign Philippe le Bel two centuries earlier.

On the front side of the Gate there are featured in relief the effigies of the Virgin holding the Holy Infant, St. John the Baptist and St. Peter. Also featured are the coats of arms of France, of the Order of St. John as well as the blazon of the House of d’Aubusson. Moreover, a heavily worn inscription may still be seen, acknowledging Grand Master d’Aubusson for the commissioning of this Gate, in 1478. On the inner side of the Gate there may be seen yet another inscription and the effigy of an Angel brandishing the coats of arms of the Order as well as of the House of d’Aubusson.

The interior of the towers is structured in three levels of vaulted halls. There are two halls of different sizes on the lower level, two hexagonal halls on the middle level and two rectangular halls on the third level of each tower. On top of each one of such towers there used to stand the defence module, featuring a sequence of machicolations (devices through which burning oil used to pour down to the assailants at the level of the Gate), providing coverage for both the outer and the inner side of the Gate. During the Italian rule (1912-1943), the entire port structure developed by the Ottomans was eliminated."

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Eíste edó chártis sti thalássia í thalássia pýli, tin kýria eísodo stin paliá póli tis Ródou apó to limáni.

"Aftí i Pýli vrísketai akrivós apénanti apó to mesaionikó emporikó limáni kai ton anoichtó dimósio chóro tis pólis, ópou pragmatopoioúntan polloí politikoí agónes, análoga me tis emporikés drastiriótites tis Ródou. I Pýli kataskevástike to 1478 ypó tin aigída tou Megálou Didaskálou Pierre d 'Aubusson (1476-1503), se mia seirá apó eskemménes omoiótites me tin kýria pýli pros tin póli Villeneuveles-Avignon, pou anatéthike apó ton gallikó kyría Philippe le Bel dýo aiónes norítera.

Stin prósopsi tis Pýlis emfanízontai anáglyfa oi morfés tis Panagías pou katéchoun to Ágio Vréfos, ton Ágio Ioánni ton Vaptistí kai ton Ágio Pétro. Epísis parousiázontai ta oikósima tis Gallías, tou Tágmatos tou Agíou Ioánni kathós kai to vlástima tis Oikías tou d'Aubusson. Epipléon, boreí na dei akóma mia variá ftharméni epigrafí, anagnorízontas ton Megálo Dáskalo d'Aubusson gia tin anakíryxi tis Pýlis aftís, to 1478. Stin esoterikí plevrá tis Pýlis boreí na dei akóma mia epigrafí kai to eídolo enós angélou pou chtypá ta paltá ton óplon tou Tágmatos kathós kai tis Oikías tou d'Aubusson.

To esoterikó ton pýrgon eínai domiméno se tría epípeda tholotón aithousón. Ypárchoun dýo aíthouses diaforetikón megethón sto káto epípedo, dýo exagonikés aíthouses sto mesaío epípedo kai dýo orthogónies aíthouses sto tríto epípedo káthe pýrgou. Stin koryfí tou kathenós apó aftoús tous pýrgous chrisimopoiíthike i antanáklasi tis monádas ámynas, i opoía charaktirizótan apó mia akolouthía machicolations (syskevés méso ton opoíon to káfsimo petrelaíou chrisimopoieítai gia na chytheí stous epitithémenous sto epípedo tis Pýlis), paréchontas kálypsi tóso gia to exoterikó óso kai gia to esoterikí plevrá tis Pýlis. Katá tin italikí kyriarchía (1912-1943), exaleífthike olókliri i limenikí domí pou anéptyxan oi Othomanoí."

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