Two tours of one city

Ria and I headed into the main town of Rhodes, on the northern tip of the island. The old walled city dates from the 1400s and was designed to protect the people from multiple Turkish invasions. Because of Rhodes' strategic importance to Christendom, each of the eight sections of the wall was the responsibility of a different country — Spain, England, Provence, Italy etc. — and thus each section was built to different standards, based on the particular country's experience with raids and sieges. The walled city is in excellent shape, still, and has been a thriving city continuously.

My interest in the history was shared by Ria, but her main focus was on the city's many cats. Hence for title of this post: two tours of one city. My god there are a lot of cats in Rhodes, and apparently not a lot of vets.

Entering the walled city, we passed through four massive gates, across two moats, and through several traps for crushing invaders. This was the bridge over the first moat. 

Within the walled city

Selfie sitting on stone cannon balls (350 lbs. each) scattered in this dry moat

Ria in an archway of a Turkish mosque (yep, the invaders eventually did make it in, although through trickery, not brute force)