Feraklos Castle

Feraklos Castle is a demolished medieval post, situated on a 85 m-high slope disregarding the town of Charaki on the east shoreline of the island of Rhodes, Greece. The post was initially worked in the Byzantine period. It was caught by the Knights Hospitaller on 20 September 1306, being their first ownership on the island that would turn into their base. By 1408 it was in ruins, and was repaired under the Grand Masters Giovanni Battista Orsini 1467– 76 and Pierre d'Aubusson 1476– 1503 as a fortress to secure the zone, and especially watch over the jettys at the Charaki and Agia Agathi shorelines adjacent.

After 1470, the Hospitallers deserted every single other fortress on the island aside from Feraklos, close-by Lindos, and the city of Rhodes, which thusly were additionally reinforced. The fortification was caught by the Ottoman Empire in 1523 after a long attack, a couple of months after the catch of Rhodes. The Ottomans did not utilize the manor and it has since been deserted. The fortification has a sporadic polygonal design, with a divider edge of 680 m including a zone of 1,700 square meters. The northern and western bits date to Byzantine circumstances, yet the rest are increments or changes by the Hospitallers. A solitary door and two round and hollow towers make due in the southern bit of the dividers, alongside a reservoir in the inside.