Rhodes Landfalla field guide, a pin map, and the campaign notes for a birthday in the city that would not fall

Seventeen things the album did not know yet

The route you sketched is sound: ship, gate, roofless church, Juderia, Knights, Palace, Ottoman town, Mandraki, Colossus. What the research changed is the middle of the day, the ending of the Colossus story, and about half of the food list.

• The walls walk is the best D&D thing in Rhodes and it was not in the plan. On weekdays from 12:00 to 15:00 you can walk the top of the ramparts from the Palace forecourt to the Gate of St John, about 1.6 km, no railings, each stretch carved with the arms of the tongue that defended it. Ticket at the Palace desk, EUR 5 to 6, an unsigned iron gate with a custodian. Enter the Palace around 11:00 and go straight onto the walls at noon, because leaving and coming back means buying the EUR 20 ticket again.
• The Colossus story has a better ending than "we don't know." Nathan Badoud's 2024 Oxford monograph, now the leading view, puts the sanctuary of Helios and the statue on the small hill under the Palace of the Grand Master. So the reveal at Mandraki can point back to the hill you stood on at eleven o'clock.
• The Colossus was paid for by a failed siege. Demetrius the Besieger's nine-storey iron-plated Helepolis, pushed by 3,400 men, was stopped by fire, a counter-mine and, in one version, a sewage trap. The abandoned engines were sold for 300 talents and Chares of Lindos spent them on the sun god. Two sieges bracket the statue: one built it, an earthquake broke it at the knees.
• There is a dragon. Dieudonne de Gozon, Grand Master 1346 to 1353, "Extinctor Draconis", killed the beast of Malpasso after training his dogs on a canvas dragon. The skull hung over a gate, by tradition the d'Amboise Gate, until about 1837. Everyone who saw it described a crocodile. The Inn of France still has crocodile gargoyles.
• The Palace exploded. On 6 November 1856 lightning struck gunpowder stored under the bell tower of the Knights' church beside the Palace; at least 200 died, the church vanished, the Palace lost its upper floors. What you walk through was rebuilt in 1937 to 1940 as a holiday residence for Victor Emmanuel III and Mussolini, who never came, floored with mosaics lifted from Kos.
• The moat is a free dungeon crawl. About 2.5 km, 30 m wide, walls up to 12 m thick, cannonballs in the grass, entrances at Mandraki and beside the port. The terreplein behind the St George bastion was honeycombed with galleries designed to be collapsed on attackers.
• The Nea Agora is closed. The Italian market by Mandraki shut on 17 November 2025 for a full rebuild and was still a construction site in August 2026; shopkeepers hoped to return around the turn of the year. No lunch or coffee there.
• Half the fancy restaurants are dinner-only. Marco Polo Mansion opens at 19:00, Nomad at 18:30, Tamam at 17:00, Macao at 22:00, The Ritualist at 15:00. Dinoris has left Museum Square. Hatzikelis, the first restaurant inside the port gate, has 2026 complaints about menus with different prices. The birthday lunch that is actually open is Nireas or Romios on Sofokleous, the one quiet good street.
• "Bible coffee" could not be found in any directory, map or review site. The island's serious coffee is Monk Coffee, a roastery a few minutes uphill from the windmills, and Unik two blocks away.
• Two ships are in port. Celestyal Discovery arrives at 07:00. Go to the Hospital and the Street of the Knights first, while the alleys are empty, and book lunch.
• Kahal Shalom is open on the day. Sunday to Friday 10:00 to 15:00 through October, EUR 6; 30 September is an intermediate day of Sukkot with no listed closure. The walls walk comes down two streets from it, which is why the Juderia moved to after noon in the timed plan.
• The Knights' relics went on a nine-century road trip. The right hand of John the Baptist, attested in the church of St John from 1413, left with the Order in 1523 for Malta, went to Tsar Paul in 1799, escaped the revolution via Copenhagen, sat in Belgrade, was hidden at Ostrog, and surfaced in a Cetinje vault in 1993. Artifact lore, told at the exploded church.
• Three things opened in June 2026 that no guidebook has yet. The Pervola, twenty stremmata beside the Palace sealed as a depot for 75 years, now an open-air museum over the Hellenistic shipsheds, the Roman main street and a 700-piece sculpture yard; a restored walkway along the sea wall from the Mills Gate by the quay to St Paul's Gate, which is both the direct route to Mandraki and the free fallback if the rampart walk is shut; and the restored Hassan Bey mansion on Argyrokastrou Square. None has published hours yet.
• Filerimos beats Lindos for a half-day. Lindos is 65 minutes each way with timed EUR 20 tickets and coaches from both ships. Filerimos is 23 minutes by taxi, EUR 10, open to 20:00, and has the better story: the citadel the Knights took by treachery in 1306, the niche where the icon of Philermos stood until it left on a captured ship, an underground chapel painted with armoured skulls, and a seven-herb liqueur at the gate.
• The saint of lost things has a church here. Agios Fanourios, whose icon came out of the rubble of a wall repair with its colours intact, is the island's patron; Greeks bake him a cake and make a wish. Open 07:00 to 19:00, two lanes from lunch.
• Sunset is 18:54, after sailing. Which is a gift: the birthday sunset is from the top deck with the walls and the fort sliding astern, and the last cocktail ashore is in golden afternoon light rather than a rush.
• The birthday-specific moves are a EUR 5 climb of the clock tower that comes with a drink, a bar of melekouni bought with the wedding wish that comes with it, a top-deck cocktail on a floating bar in Mandraki, and, as a Plan B for the afternoon, a swim inside a 1929 Art Deco spa ruin where The Guns of Navarone was filmed.

The day, timed

Walking on the route line is 93 minutes at an easy pace, plus about an hour on the ramparts. Everything below has slack. The three fixed points are the noon walls window, the 15:00 closing of the synagogue, and the 17:30 all-aboard.

If the ship berths at Akandia rather than the Tourist Port, only the first leg changes: walk north along the water to the Akandia Gate or the Gate of the Virgin, ten to twelve minutes. Check the berth in the ship's app the evening before.

The Colossus, properly

Paid for by a siege

In 305 BC Demetrius, son of Antigonus One-Eye and soon nicknamed Poliorcetes, the Besieger, came for Rhodes with two hundred warships, more than a hundred and seventy auxiliaries, not quite forty thousand men and, Diodorus says, almost a thousand private ships trailing behind in hope of plunder. The city had about six thousand citizens under arms, promised freedom to slaves who fought bravely and dowries to the daughters of the fallen. When the sea assault stalled, Demetrius built the Helepolis, the City-Taker.

Nine storeys high, on eight great solid wheels whose rims were overlaid with heavy iron plates. The three exposed sides he covered with iron plates nailed on, so that it should receive no injury from fire carriers. It was moved by three thousand four hundred men excelling in strength.Diodorus Siculus 20.91, condensed. Vitruvius gives 125 feet high and 360,000 Roman pounds, roughly 118 tonnes.

The Rhodians stopped it three ways, all attested. One night at the second watch they struck it with an unremitting shower of fire missiles until the iron plates came loose; at dawn Demetrius counted more than eight hundred fire missiles and fifteen hundred catapult bolts on the ground. Underground, a counter-mine met his sappers, and a Rhodian named Athenagoras played double agent and lured an officer up through the tunnel to be captured. And Vitruvius says the engineer Diognetus had a hole cut in the wall and every drop of water, filth and mud in the city poured through it, so that the tower sank in the quagmire. Peace came in 304 BC. Demetrius left his engines. The Rhodians sold them for three hundred talents and gave the money to Chares of Lindos, a pupil of Lysippos, who spent twelve years building a bronze Helios seventy cubits high, about 33 metres, a ten-storey building.

To thy very self, O Sun, did the people of Dorian Rhodes raise high to heaven this colossus, then, when having laid to rest the brazen wave of war, they crowned their country with the spoils of their foes. Not only over the sea, but on the land, too, did they establish the lovely light of unfettered freedom.The dedication, Greek Anthology 6.171, Paton's translation. Badoud argues this was the pedestal inscription.

It stood for about sixty-six years

An earthquake around 227 or 226 BC broke it at the knees. Ptolemy III offered three thousand talents, a hundred master builders and three hundred and fifty masons to raise it again; an oracle told the Rhodians not to, and they left the god lying. It lay there for centuries, visited like the skeleton of a dragon.

Even lying on the ground it is a marvel. Few people can make their arms meet round the thumb of the figure, and the fingers are larger than most statues; and where the limbs have been broken off enormous cavities yawn, while inside are seen great masses of rock with the weight of which the artist steadied it.Pliny the Elder, Natural History 34.41, three centuries after the fall.

What it looked like: almost certainly a standing nude youth with long curling hair and a radiate crown, the Helios of the Rhodian coins. No torch, which is a 1572 invention. Possibly shading his eyes with one hand. The marble head of Helios in the Hospital, drilled for a bronze ray-crown, is the nearest surviving face. Pseudo-Philo of Byzantium says Chares cast it in horizontal courses inside a rising mound of earth; Ursula Vedder argues it must have been cast in large sections in nearby pits, Badoud that casting in courses is probably authentic, pointing to the Great Buddha of Nara. Scholarship is split and the audio can say so.

The camels

Theophanes, writing around 810, records that in 653 or 654 the Arabs overran Rhodes, destroyed the Colossus and sold its bronze to a Jewish merchant of Edessa, who carried it away on nine hundred camels. Constantine Porphyrogenitus makes it 980. Every version traces to one lost Syriac chronicle, the arithmetic is wrong, a pagan bronze scrapheap is unlikely to have survived Christianisation intact, and Badoud calls the tale a fabrication modelled on Nebuchadnezzar's shattered statue in the Book of Daniel. It remains the best line in the story; tell it as legend.

Where it stood

Consensus in 2026: not the harbour mouth; probably a sanctuary of Helios; Palace hill leading, Monte Smith second, the mole a romantic third. Nobody has ever excavated to test it. Rebuilding schemes in 2008 and 2015, the last a 150-metre solar-skinned giant to be crowdfunded, went nowhere. The only things that got built are the two limestone columns at the harbour mouth and the bronze stag and doe of 1939.

Factions, monsters, artifacts, dungeons

The Order of St John on Rhodes was a sovereign guild of warrior-monks run by eight national chapters called tongues. Each lived in its own inn, ate together, and defended its own stretch of wall. The head of each tongue held one of the great offices by right of nation. It is a class and faction system that a game designer would be embarrassed to invent.

The roster

• Chares of Lindos, artificer. A later anecdote says he quoted for a fifty-cubit statue, was asked for double, only doubled the price, went bankrupt and killed himself. Not history; a good rumour.
• Demetrius the Besieger, the boss of the first act, who refused to burn Protogenes' seven-year painting of Ialysos because he would rather burn the likenesses of his father than so great a labour of art.
• Mesih Pasha, 1480. Born a Palaiologos, probably a nephew of the last Byzantine emperor, taken at ten at the fall of Constantinople, raised as a palace page, and sent back to besiege Christians. An English sailor swam out one June night and cut the anchor of his pontoon bridge.
• Pierre d'Aubusson, Grand Master, wounded several times at the breach with a lance in hand, later a cardinal, who took some forty to forty-five thousand ducats a year from the Sultan to keep the Sultan's brother Cem prisoner.
• Gabriele Tadini da Martinengo, Venetian engineer smuggled out of Crete against orders in July 1522, who listened for Ottoman miners with a bell-hung drum, lost an eye to an arquebus ball on 14 October and led a sortie six weeks later. Titian painted him.
• Andrea d'Amaral, Chancellor, the rival who lost the 1521 election, accused after his servant was caught on the ramparts with a bow and a letter, stripped of his habit in St John's church and beheaded in November 1522. He refused to confess under torture; Portuguese historians call him a scapegoat. Hold both.
• Suleiman, who rode in on Christmas Day 1522 through the St Athanasios Gate, then had it sealed so nobody could use his door; it stayed shut until 1922. He told his vizier he was sorry to force so venerable a warrior from his home. Later tradition, and the tour should say so.
• Dieudonne de Gozon, dragon-slayer, and the goddess Isis, who in 88 BC is said to have thrown a fireball at Mithridates' ship-borne siege tower, which collapsed. Two divine interventions for the price of one siege circuit.
• Lawrence Durrell, bard, living in the gatekeeper's lodge of an Ottoman cemetery in 1945 and watching the Marine Venus rise from her wartime crypt.

Monsters and the first campaign

Before the dragon there were the snakes: Pliny lists Ophiussa, the snaky one, among the island's old names, and Diodorus says Apollo's oracle told the Rhodians to summon Phorbas the Thessalian, who destroyed the serpents and was honoured as a hero. Before Phorbas there were the Telchines, children of the Sea, sorcerer-smiths who forged the sickle of Cronus, summoned rain and hail, changed shape, poisoned crops with Styx water and sulphur, and had the evil eye; Zeus drowned them. Their daughter was Rhodos, whom Helios married when he claimed the island as it rose from the sea, having missed the lottery of the gods. Their seven sons were astrologer-kings who invented the hours; the cleverest was murdered by his brothers. Tell it at the Temple of Aphrodite, whose goddess the Telchines' sons once drove from this shore.

The wizards' college

The acropolis on Monte Smith was never a fortress. For a century after 150 BC it was a campus. Hipparchus of Nicaea worked on the meridian line here between 147 and 127 BC: he saw a new star appear, dared, in Pliny's phrase, a thing reprehensible even for God and catalogued about 850 stars so posterity could tell if any moved, and by comparing Spica with a century-old record discovered that the whole sky wobbles. Posidonius, under whom Rhodes eclipsed Athens as the centre of Stoic philosophy, had Pompey lower his fasces at his door, lectured from a sickbed that pain is no evil, built a bronze sphere that showed the sun, moon and five planets moving, and measured the Earth from the star Canopus grazing the southern horizon. The Antikythera mechanism, the geared cosmos in the Athens museum, uses Hipparchus' theory of the moon and came off a wreck carrying Rhodian pottery; it may have been built in this circle, though Corinth is the rival candidate. The rhetoric school where Cicero declaimed in Greek and a young Caesar arrived late after forty days with the pirates met in the odeon. And Apollonius of Rhodes, in the Argonautica, gave the world Talos, a bronze giant with one vein of ichor at his ankle, killed by Medea's evil eye, written on the island of a bronze giant and of the Telchines who had the evil eye.

The heist of 1306

After the Fourth Crusade a local magnate ruled from the Byzantine citadel as Caesar Gabalas, Lord of Rhodes and the Cyclades, whose coins called him the emperor's servant while he swore fealty to Venice. Genoese raiders took the city in a night attack in 1248 while his brother was away. Then, on 27 May 1306, the Knights signed a contract with a Genoese corsair, Vignolo de' Vignoli, splitting the future revenues two-thirds to one, sailed from Cyprus with thirty-five knights and five hundred foot, took the citadel of Filerimos on 11 November through the treason of a local Greek, killed its 300 Turkish mercenaries, and besieged the city from that rock for four years. It fell on 15 August 1310 because a Genoese supply ship was blown off course, its captain was hauled before the Grand Master, and to save his neck he talked the garrison into surrendering. Strabo's secret dockyards, where spying carried the death penalty, and the agent of Philip of Macedon who burned thirteen sheds on a windy night in 204 BC, are the earlier chapters of the same heist genre; the Pervola museum now stands on those sheds.

Artifacts

• The right hand of John the Baptist, attested in the Knights' church from 1413, now in Cetinje Monastery, Montenegro, after Malta, Russia, Copenhagen, Belgrade and Ostrog. The icon of Our Lady of Philermos travelled with it; a replica hangs at Filerimos.
• The Colossus itself: fragments a man could not reach around, gone without a documented trace.
• The Lindos Chronicle of 99 BC, a marble slab listing forty-five legendary dedications to Athena Lindia, including a Phoenician-lettered bronze cauldron left by Cadmus. An in-world magic-item catalogue.
• The great harbour chain from the Naillac tower, and a heap of 26-inch stone cannonballs behind the railings on Argyrokastrou Square.
• Melekouni, the birthday relic: the honey-and-sesame bar sent to announce weddings, with a wish attached.

Dungeons

The moat, free and always open. The terreplein galleries behind the St George bastion, rigged to collapse. The forty Ottoman mines under the English post and Tadini's counter-mines. The vault under the church of St John that exploded three centuries after the siege. The four rock-cut nymphaea on the acropolis. The Tomb of the Ptolemies in the Rodini necropolis. Under the Palace, the granaries and three storeys of vaulted magazines that once reached moat level. The sealed Yeni Hammam with its star-pierced domes. The Hafiz Ahmed Agha Library, whose custodian holds the door code.

Encounters, in the order you meet them

• 1306 to 1310: the Knights' own siege of the Byzantine city, thirty-five knights and five hundred foot at the start; the city surrendered on 15 August 1310.
• 1444: a Mamluk fleet of eighty-five ships spent six weeks on the west walls and burned ships in Mandraki, which is why Fort St Nicholas was built.
• 1480: 9 June, the assault on the Tower of St Nicholas; 27 July, the breach at the Tower of Italy; the vision above the wall reported by Caoursin, whose account was printed within months and became a European bestseller. A year later an earthquake wrecked the walls again.
• 1522: 4 September, the mines under England; 24 September, the general assault and the Tower of Spain lost and retaken; 14 October, Tadini's eye; November, the Chancellor's trial; 17 or 18 December, Spain falls; 22 December, terms; 1 January 1523, fifty ships leave with drums beating and four thousand Rhodians under a new banner, a Pieta with the motto Afflictis spes mea rebus.
• 1856 and 1863: the powder vault and the earthquake that split the Naillac tower.
• 1943 to 1948: Italians against Germans for the island in September 1943, famine, the deportation of July 1944, the German surrender of 8 May 1945, union with Greece on 7 March 1948.

Eat, drink, coffee

The shortlist

• Lunch, first choice: Nireas, Sofokleous 22, family-run since 1989 under a vine, from 12:00. Symi shrimp, grilled dorade, panna cotta with figs. Book by phone.
• Lunch, the plated one: Romios, Sofokleous 15, chef-owner Silouani Vlachou's revived Rhodian recipes, from 12:00, online booking.
• Rooftop options: Ta Kardasia (call; opening time is disputed), Castello House under the minaret from 10:00, La Veranda over the memorial square from 10:00, Minos roof at the top of Omirou for a drink.
• Coffee: Monk Coffee, the roastery near the windmills, from 08:00; Unik on Amerikis; Old Town Corner Bakery inside the walls; Koukos in the New Town for Greek coffee with wood-oven pies among a thousand curios.
• Wine: the Cellar of Knights under the Castellania stairs on Hippocrates Square, glasses of Rhodian Athiri and Amorgiano since 1963, souma by the bottle; the Wine Bar at the Wine Hotel on Platonos; 10GR on Polidorou from 13:00 with a Rhodian flight.
• The birthday cocktail: Swan by Kontiki, three floating decks off the Mandraki quay, 10:00 to 01:00, expensive, uneven service, unbeatable seat. Fallback: the lounge bar of the Grande Albergo delle Rose.
• Sweet: Stani for ice cream south of the walls; Porca Vacca for gelato on Agiou Fanouriou until 16:00; Fournariko for orange cake any hour.

The edible quest

Do not plan around

Nea Agora (closed for restoration). Marco Polo Mansion, Nomad, Tamam, Macao, Lukumamma, To Steno (all evening only). The Ritualist (15:00 at the earliest). Dinoris (moved to the New Town, dinner only). Ta Petaladika and the tables on Hippocrates Square (hustling and surprise charges in 2026 reviews). Hatzikelis (ask for the printed price list). Taverna Kostas (flagged temporarily closed in September 2026; phone first). Elli beach bars (one drink, not lunch).

Views and walks

• The ramparts, weekdays 12:00 to 15:00, from the Palace forecourt to the Gate of St John. The one view that shows the whole machine: bastions, moat, glacis, the New Town beyond.
• The sea wall, restored and lit in June 2026: a corridor along the harbour fortifications from the Mills Gate two minutes off the quay to St Paul's Gate, fifteen minutes, the direct way to Mandraki and the free fallback if the ramparts are shut.
• The moat, any hour, free. Enter at Mandraki by St Paul's Gate or at the Akandia Gate by the port. Sixty to ninety minutes clockwise. Best as the morning cool-down if you land at Akandia, or as the B-side of the album.
• The Roloi, EUR 5 with a drink, the highest point inside the walls. Four windows, four directions, your ship in the east one.
• The Mandraki mole to Fort St Nicholas, past the windmills: the free 360-degree view of walls, Foro Italico and the Turkish coast.
• Monte Smith, the acropolis, 35 minutes uphill from the Gate of St Athanasios or a ten-minute taxi. Four columns, a stadium, an odeon, the nymphaea caves, and the whole town below. Fenced and scaffolded around the temple in 2025; the ridge is the point. Only fits if you drop the Palace interior or Mandraki.
• Elli beach and the Aquarium at the island's tip, 25 minutes along the promenade from Hippocrates Square: a swim from the town beach, the 1930s lido, Bernabiti's Art Deco marine institute with its underwater-cave basement.
• Rodini Park, about 2 km south, a shaded ravine of Italian dams and peacocks with the rock-cut tomb above it. Only if the day is long, which it is not.

Birthday moves

• The toast: the clock tower at 15:00, the drink that comes with the ticket, the harbour window with your own ship in it.
• The candle: Agios Fanourios on Dorieos Square, the saint who reveals what was lost. Light one, name the thing, and go looking for fanouropita, the lenten orange-and-walnut cake cut into forty pieces with a wish.
• The relic: a bar of melekouni bought on Sokratous with the wedding wish attached. Eat it on the ramparts.
• The table: Nireas under the vine, panna cotta with figs and a candle. Or Romios if you want the plated version.
• The cocktail: Swan's top deck at 16:20, windmills and fort in front of you, the walls behind.
• The swim (Plan B): Kallithea Springs, a 1929 spa built over a sacred spring that has since dried, mosaics underfoot, a rotunda shrine to Eros, a German prison camp in the war, a film set in 1961.
• The classy alternative: a martini in the lobby bar of the Grande Albergo delle Rose, where the Egypt-Israel armistice was negotiated in 1949, then a look through the blue door of the Murad Reis cemetery next door.
• The sunset: 18:54, from the top deck, fifty-four minutes after sailing, with the fort and the walls astern. Nobody has to hurry back for it.
• The track: one song on the album with no history in it at all, or a recorded message from someone spliced in as a ghost voice, triggered at the harbour mouth.

Hours that apply on the day

Weather normals for late September: highs around 27 to 28 degrees, sea about 26 degrees, almost no rain, a north-westerly breeze on the Mandraki side. Greek museum guards announce strikes three to seven days out; check the week before.

Eighteen tracks

Narration tracks map to the numbered stops. Music-only walking tracks cover the legs longer than five minutes, each about a minute longer than the walk with a slow fade. Beds under the voice sit 15 to 18 dB down and change instrumentation by era: lyre and frame drum for Helios, organum and bells for the Knights, ney and oud after 1522, mandolin and strings for the Italian boulevards, bare harbour ambience at the end.

1. 01Landfall 3 min, gangway to the gate. You are the latest of three thousand years of arrivals. One fact: this city was designed around the certainty that someone was always coming.
2. 02The Threshold 2 min, stop 2. Turn around. Ship, sea, stone. Now walk through.
3. 03A Church Without a Roof 3 min, stop 3. Ten seconds of choir, then the real wind.
4. 04The Law Is Lord of the Sea 5 min, stops 4 and 5. The merchants' town, the courthouse, the emperor who bowed to Rhodian law.
5. 05The Hospital 6 min plus interior time, stop 6. What the Hospitallers were; the sun god's severed head; Durrell at the trapdoor.
6. 06Seven Tongues 7 min, walking uphill, stop 7. Each inn as it passes. The crocodile gargoyles. The offices of the Order.
7. 07The Vault 5 min, stop 8. 6 November 1856. The relics' road to Cetinje. The dragon-slayer's empty grave.
8. 08The Keep on the Sun's Hill 7 min plus interior time, stop 9. Byzantine citadel, Order's headquarters, Mussolini's unused palace, and Badoud's argument, planted here and paid off at track 15.
9. 09Draconis Extinctor 5 min, stop 10. Look up at the arch. The dogs, the canvas dragon, the crocodile.
10. 10The Faction Map 15 min in segments, stops 11 to 12. Triggered by bastion: Germany, Auvergne, Spain and 24 September, England and the drum, Provence, Italy and the 1480 breach, the Red Gate. Score builds through 1480 and 1522.
11. 11La Juderia 8 min, stops 13 and 14. Arrival, flourishing, 23 July 1944, the consul. Silence at the end.
12. 12Lunch interlude music only.
13. 13Under the Minaret 6 min, stop 16. Christmas Day 1522, the sealed gate, the library that wrote the siege down, the clock tower. The birthday toast.
14. 14Sorcerer-Smiths 5 min, walking down Sokratous to stop 17. The Telchines, Helios and Rhodos, the seven brothers.
15. 15The City-Taker 6 min, stop 18 to the quay. Out of the walls; the Foro Italico; the Helepolis; the sale that bought a god.
16. 16Where Was the Colossus? 8 min, stops 19 and 20. The epigram at the deer columns; de Martoni's impossible stride; four theories; the answer is the hill you climbed this morning. Thirty seconds of music on the mole.
17. 17Birthday stop 21. No history. Yours.
18. 18Return by Sea 6 min, stop 22 to the gangway. Helios, Rome, Byzantium, the Knights, Suleiman, the Juderia, Italy, Greece, you. The Naillac tower and the chain. Rhodes has spent its history watching ships arrive; this time you are the one leaving. Fade to harbour noise.