Rhodes Old Town

The best-preserved medieval city in the world -- a UNESCO World Heritage Site whose 4-kilometre walls, built by the Knights of St John between 1309 and 1522, enclose a perfectly intact Gothic city of hospitals, inns, and the Palace of the Grand Masters -- Rhodes Old Town is inhabited by 6,000 people who still live within the original Crusader fortifications. The Street of the Knights, cobbled in 1467 and lined with the Inns of the eight tongues (nationalities) of the Order of St John, is considered the finest surviving example of medieval urban planning in Europe.