Acropolis of Rhodes

The Acropolis of Rhodes is an acropolis relationship from the Classical Greek length positioned about 3 kilometers from the centre of the town of Rhodes, Rhodes. The in part reconstructed part of the website online consists of the Temple of Apollo also, as alternatives Athena Polias and Zeus Polieus underneath which is a stadium and a small theatre. It is covered in a massive park, Monte Smith, named for English Napoleonic admiral William Sidney Smith. The island of Rhodes is the biggest of the Dodecanese, an island group inside the southeastern Aegean Sea.

In 408 BC, in the direction of the cease of the Peloponnesian War, three of the island's historical cities merged to build a completely new one – the metropolis of Rhodes – on a domain within the Ialysia area of the island. Admired for its beauty and comfort, the city flourished. After weathering a siege with the aid of Demetrios Poliorketes the besieger in 305–303 BC, Rhodes rallied and built the Colossus of Rhodes, a huge statue of the solar god Helios, to whom Rhodes is related in Greek mythology. The Acropolis is located on the highest a part of the metropolis. The monuments have been constructed on stepped terraces, with huge maintaining walls.