Panagia Portaitissa church is located in the center of Astypalea island near the Venetian castle.
Panagia Spiliani Monastery was built in the 14th century, in the cave of the castle in Mandraki.
In 1966, while sailing from Leros to Kalymnos, it struck a rock islet.
Its bombardment by Nazi German fighter planes on September 26, 1943 took the lives of the ship’s captain and 72 crew members on board.
In the medieval town of Rhodes, the palace of the Grand Master of the Order, the famous “Castello”, is one of the greatest monuments erected in the Middle Ages.



