Austere and uncommercialised, the Street of the Knights (Ippoton, in Greek) was home from the 14th century to the Knights Hospitaller who ruled Rhodes. They were divided by birthplace into seven ‘tongues’, or languages – 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.
