How did you imagine castles looked like when you were a small child? Well, the Palace of Grand Master of Knights perfectly fits the bill! I do not wish to spoil it for anyone by giving a detailed account but if you are able to climb a lot of steps, just take your camera and go! You will not see... More

Follow a human guide if you can the paper guide is not good. If you can prove you are over 65 (passport) you get in half price More

get there early, gets crowded in the middle of summer More

This is a quite new palace. The old palace of the Grand Master of the Knights Hospitalier exploded in the 19'th center. The Italian occupiers built instead a residence for king and for Mussolini. It was inaugurated in 1940, just before Italy entered WWII. Almost each room has inlaid floor mosaics brought from Christian churches from Rhodes or from the... More

The only reason I give this 4 stars instead of 5 is because I wanted more information. Perhaps you have to hire a guide ... there were small plaques on all the mosaics saying where they were from and some sculptures also ... but beyond that there was very little description of what you are looking at. All that aside,... More

This is a great museum. The imposing staircase is fabulous and the whole place is atmospheric. Well worth a visit. More

Fantastic mosaics to look at from the Island of Kos. Superb architecture. More

The entire medieval town is very beautiful. It is really worth visiting especially if you like mosaic works, from ancient times. More

we went around the fortress and the museum and all was very interesting. However we paid our 6 euro each, to see the Palace and found out, after entering and finding most areas blocked off, that we had paid to see the 1st floor only as the rest was extra. The rest was locked up. So we went around the... More