GRAND MASTER PALACE

The Grand Master's Palace is perhaps the most important monument of the Knights. During the Italian restoration, in 1930, the building received its current layout, making it the headquarters, but also the residence of the Italian commander. In the halls of the first floor, visitors can admire the mosaics carried over from the Italians, mainly from secular and ecclesiastical buildings of Kos, in order to decorate the Palace. Apart from the impressive mosaics, there are also columns and capitals, medieval furniture, mirrors, paintings, candlesticks and other objects complete the decoration of the imposing edifice.

 

On part of the ground floor of the Palace, in successive halls, it houses the permanent exhibition of 4th DAC entitled "Rhodes from early Christian times until its conquest by the Turks (1522)." This includes various finds from excavations conducted in the Medieval City (ceramics, sculptures, frescoes, icons, miniatures, etc.)