The real Rhodes: Street of the Knights

A view from near the top of this very old and famous street shows us a glimpse of the many tourist here and also a scene that is all too familiar in this part of the world. A small boy trying to make music on the toy accordeon, to make some money - perhaps for food, perhaps on orders from a higher authority. I did see him in a few different places though.

'Austere and somewhat forbidding, the Street of the Knights (Ippoton) was home from the 14th century to the Knights Hospitaller who ruled Rhodes. The knights were divided into seven ‘tongues’, or languages, according to their birthplace – England, France, Germany, Italy, Aragon, Auvergne and Provence – each responsible for a specific section of the fortifications. As wall displays explain, the street holds an ‘inn’, or palace, for each tongue. Its modern appearance, though, owes much to Italian restorations during the 1930s.'

See PiP for bottom of street views.