Hello everyone Hivers and welcome back to my blog. As I had already mentioned in a previous post, I visited the island and city of Rhodes, ten days spent among marine beauty, acropolis and nature. Today I will tell you something about the city of Rhodes, and especially about its famous colossal bronze statue that was one of the seven wonders of the ancient world. Colossus of RhodesRhodes is the fourth largest island in Greece and is very close to the coast of Turkey. It has a large, well-equipped port and its origins go back more than 600 years before Christ. But let us come to the famous statue. The colossus was erected in the 3rd century BC to celebrate a victory against Demetrius the son of Alexander the Great, who had besieged the city of Rhodes with an army of 40,000 men. The dozens of catapults on ships, aimed at the strong city walls, were to no avail. After many months, a storm destroyed many ships, so Demetrius decided to build a large siege tower to throw stones in a better way, but this too was to no avail. After a year of siege, General Polyphemus organised a fleet from Rhodes and drove the enemies away. To celebrate the victory, the people of Rhodes decided to build an enormous bronze statue, 32 metres high and held up by a structure of iron girders inside. The statue was dedicated to the god Helios, son of the Sun, and took 12 years to make. 
