The Tower of Spain

Identity

Site & dates

The Tower of Spain › South-western walls, Post of Spain

The Tower of Spain stands at the boundary between the Post of Auvergne, marked to its north by the Bastion of St George, and the Post of Spain, which runs south to the bastion of St Athanasios and the Tower of the Virgin. Its central round tower belongs to the earliest gunpowder-age phase of the Rhodian fortifications, built free-standing before 1480; its surrounding bastion, with a narrow artillery gun-gallery, is attributed to Grand Master Pierre d'Aubusson and dated by inscription to 1489. The tower and its sector were at the centre of the decisive events of the 1522 siege that ended the Order's rule at Rhodes.

Before 1480

The central round tower is built, free-standing and cut off from the adjoining curtain wall, projecting roughly 3 m above it — the earliest gunpowder-age phase documented for this monument, and, unlike its northern neighbour the Bastion of St George, not associated with the absorption of any earlier city gate.

1480

The tower is damaged in the first Ottoman siege of Rhodes.

1489

Grand Master Pierre d’Aubusson (1476–1503) encases the damaged tower within a fortified perimetric bastion pierced by a narrow artillery gun-gallery; his coat of arms and the date 1489 are carved on the bastion’s external south façade — one of the more precisely dated building phases among the fortification’s bastions.

24 September 1522

General assault of the second Ottoman siege: Janissaries scale and briefly hold the Tower of Spain, forcing the Knights to besiege their own tower before retaking it; see Story, below, for the Anastasia legend associated with this day.

10 – 30 October 1522

The wall below the Tower of Spain is breached and never resealed — the single most consequential episode of the siege, per Kenneth Setton’s academic account; by 30 October the gap is wide enough for a full corps of cavalry.

7 – 8 November 1522

Grand Chancellor Andreas d’Amaral, accused of treason on 30 October, is tried, stripped of the Hospitallers’ cross, and executed; his quartered body is displayed on the bulwarks of Auvergne, Spain, England and Italy.

1912 – 1947

Italian administration of the Dodecanese.

1947 – Present

Hellenic state property, administered by the Ephorate of Antiquities of the Dodecanese; accessible along the moat and fortifications walk, with no dedicated modern restoration campaign documented specifically for this monument.

No dedicated archaeological excavation or restoration-campaign publication specific to the Tower of Spain is documented in the sources consulted for this document, unlike the neighbouring Bastion of St George; see Assessment, below, for how this gap affects this document's own Scientific Value rating.

Fabric

A tower within a bastion

What survives › tower, gun-gallery, and moat

The monument's compact, evolved form is itself a record of the gunpowder-age transformation of the Rhodian fortifications: a free-standing round tower at its core, encased within a lower perimetric bastion pierced by a narrow gun-gallery, fronted by the dry moat. Internal circulation runs both through the outwork between the bastion's two firing levels and through the tower's own interior, connecting to the fortification's wall-walk.

The Free-Standing Tower

The monument’s earliest phase: a round tower, built before 1480, originally free-standing and projecting above the adjoining curtain wall — damaged in the 1480 siege and subsequently encased within the bastion described below.

The 1489 Bastion

A perimetric artillery bastion encasing the older tower, attributed to Grand Master Pierre d’Aubusson and dated by inscription to 1489; his carved coat of arms and the date appear on the bastion’s external south façade.

The Narrow Gun-Gallery

A vaulted firing corridor, built in stone to withstand the vibration and recoil of gunpowder artillery; academic assessment groups it, with the gun-galleries of the bastions of St Paul, St Peter and Italy, among the more sophisticated perimeter artillery emplacements of the circuit.

Internal Circulation

Communication runs via the outwork (proteichisma) between the bastion’s two firing levels, and separately via the central tower’s own interior, connecting to the fortification’s wall-walk (peridromos) — of particular interest, per this project’s own source material, for understanding how the defenders moved along and between different levels of the gunpowder-age defences.

Materials and Technique

Dressed masonry throughout, using large poros blocks quarried locally on Rhodes as the principal building stone; the gun-gallery is vaulted in stone and the firing platform finished with an earthen-and-masonry artillery surface (terre-plein construction).

The monument carries a dual name in the sources consulted for this document — 'Tower of Spain,' after the original tower, and 'Bastion of Spain,' after the fortified work that encases it — paralleling the Auvergne / St George dual naming of its northern neighbour; both names are used interchangeably throughout this document.

History

From free-standing tower to decisive breach

The fortifications of Rhodes › gunpowder, bastions, and the Tongue of Spain

The Tower of Spain's own building history follows the same gunpowder-age transformation documented across the Rhodian circuit: the doubling of the dry ditch's width, the encasement of older towers within polygonal bastions, and the replacement of crenellated parapets with sloped, cannon-resistant profiles. Its sector, held by the Tongue of Spain — the Aragonese, Catalan, Castilian and Portuguese knights of the Order — became, in 1522, one of the two or three points the Ottoman command treated as decisive.

An Early Gunpowder-Age Tower

Unlike the neighbouring Bastion of St George, the Tower of Spain’s development is not associated with the absorption of an earlier city gate: its central round tower belongs to the earliest gunpowder-age phase of the circuit, built free-standing before 1480.

The 1489 Encasement

Damaged in the 1480 siege, the tower is encased within a perimetric bastion with a narrow gun-gallery under Grand Master Pierre d’Aubusson, whose coat of arms and the date 1489 are carved on its external façade.

The Tongue’s Stand, 1522

The wall’s five bastions were each entrusted to a veteran knight of a different Tongue; the bastion of Spain was held throughout the siege by Francis de Carrières. Ottoman commanders treated it as one of the two or three decisive points of attack, raising a great earthen cavalier against it and the neighbouring bastion of Auvergne at heavy cost in pioneers’ lives.

The Decisive Breach, 10–30 October 1522

Kenneth Setton’s academic account identifies the Spanish-sector wall as the site of the siege’s single most consequential breach, opened 10 October 1522 and never resealed; by 30 October the gap was wide enough for a full corps of cavalry — the same day Grand Chancellor Andreas d’Amaral was first accused of treasonable communication with the enemy.

The Post of Aragon and the Sewage Pipelines

The Ottomans ultimately broke into the city not at the Tower of Spain itself but at the adjoining battle post of Aragon, between the tower and the Tower of the Virgin, exploiting ancient sewage pipelines to dig mines — countered by chief engineer Gabriele Tadino da Martinengo’s improvised detection system, described in Testimony, below.

Surrender and Administration, 1522 – Present

The siege ends 1 January 1523, following negotiations opened 1 December 1522 near the Auvergne post; the tower passes to Italian administration in 1912 and to Greek state ownership following the 1947 Treaty of Peace with Italy.

The Ministry of Culture's 2000-2008 restoration volume covers the neighbouring bastions of St John, St Athanasios, St George and del Carretto individually, but not the Tower of Spain; the wider Post of Spain moat sector did receive counterscarp-consolidation and landscaping works during that 2000-2008 programme, without a monument-specific excavation or conservation campaign.

Testimony

In the chroniclers’ own words, and on the stone itself

Setton, Vertot, and the bastion’s own inscription › direct testimony

D’AUBUSSON · MDLXXXIX

Read directly from the stone: the bastion’s own carved coat of arms and the date 1489, set on its external south façade — primary, on-site testimony that the encasement of the older free-standing tower within the fortified bastion described in Fabric, above, belongs to Grand Master Pierre d’Aubusson’s own magistracy, independently of any documentary record.

This project's own photographs of the bastion's carved coat of arms and date; see Gallery, below, for the image itself.

A Day of Bad Fortune for Us

“A day of bad fortune for us ... and the beginning of our ruin.” — the contemporary chronicler Jacques de Bourbon, writing of 10 October 1522, the day the wall below the Tower of Spain was breached and could not be resealed.

Quoted in Kenneth M. Setton, The Papacy and the Levant (1204–1571), Vol. III: The Sixteenth Century, Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1976, ch. 6, 'Hadrian VI, the Fall of Rhodes, and Renewal of the War in Italy.'

Thirty-Four Days and Nights

Grand Master Philippe Villiers de l’Isle-Adam, by his own account, personally took over command of the Spanish bastion’s defence for the thirty-four days and nights of chief engineer Gabriele Tadino da Martinengo’s convalescence after his wounding, never leaving the entrenchment there “excepting only for some moments on a mattress.”

René Aubert, Abbé de Vertot, The History of the Knights Hospitallers of St. John of Jerusalem, London, 1757, cross-referenced in this project's own Statement of Significance source material for the Tower of Spain; consulted to resolve a discrepancy, noted in Persons & Events below, over the nature of Martinengo's wound.

The Shaving-Bowls of the Countermine

Chief engineer Gabriele Tadino da Martinengo fitted barbershop shaving-bowls with suspended clappers at vulnerable points along the walls; underground vibration from Ottoman mining rang the bowls, like a stretched tambourine used as a stethoscope, warning the defenders where to dig their own countermines beneath the Tower of Spain and the adjoining post of Aragon.

V. Pavlides, “Rhodes 1306-1522. A Story”, 1999, Rhodes Image Editions, Rhodes.

Persons & Events

Builders, defenders, and a disgraced chancellor

1489–1522 › the bastion’s own cast of named figures

Five named figures, besides the legendary Anastasia told in Story below, run through the documentary record of this monument: the Grand Master who encased its tower in stone, the Grand Master who commanded its defence in the Order's last siege, the engineer blinded defending it, the chancellor executed in the siege's aftermath, and the knight who held it from the first cannon-shot to the last.

Pierre d’Aubusson, Grand Master 1476 – 1503

Encased the earlier free-standing tower within a fortified bastion with an artillery gun-gallery, dated by inscription to 1489; see Fabric and Testimony, above.

Francis de Carrières, Knight of the Tongue of Spain

Commanded the bastion of Spain throughout the 1522 siege, from the general assault of 24 September to the final weeks of bombardment before the December surrender.

Gabriele Tadino da Martinengo, Chief Engineer

Devised the shaving-bowl countermine-detection system described in Testimony, above; wounded directing the countermines at a critical point in the mining war beneath the walls near the Tower of Spain and the post of Aragon. This document follows Vertot’s account of Martinengo blinded in one eye, over an earlier version of this project’s own heritage-narrative text describing him as shot in the head — both accounts agree on the severity and timing of his disablement, and the discrepancy is reported here rather than silently resolved.

Philippe Villiers de l’Isle-Adam, Grand Master 1521 – 1522

The Order’s last Grand Master at Rhodes; personally commanded the Spanish bastion’s defence for thirty-four days and nights during Martinengo’s convalescence, and ultimately negotiated the city’s surrender.

Andreas d’Amaral, Grand Chancellor of the Order

Accused of treasonable communication with the enemy on 30 October 1522, the same day the Spanish-sector breach grew wide enough for cavalry; tried, stripped of the Hospitallers’ cross on 7 November, and executed the following day, his quartered body displayed on the bulwarks of Auvergne, Spain, England and Italy.

Setton records that d'Amaral's severed head was displayed on the Tower of St George facing the Turkish lines — a detail also recorded in this project's own Statement of Significance for the Bastion of St George — while his quartered body was hung on the bulwarks of Auvergne, Spain, England and Italy: a direct and gruesome connection between this monument and the Order's own reckoning with the affair.

Story

Anastasia

24 September 1522 › a narrative reconstruction for visitors

The Sultan's Promise

Four months Sultan Suleiman has camped before the walls of Rhodes, and four months the walls have held. Now he gives the order: the Janissaries will take the city, and he promises them three days of plunder for it. At dawn on 24 September 1522 the general assault begins, and does not slacken until late afternoon. Fifteen thousand Ottoman dead are traditionally numbered by the day's end — a figure this document reports as traditional rather than independently verified. At the Tower of Spain, the Janissaries scale the wall, plant their own standard, and briefly hold the tower itself, forcing the Knights to besiege their own fortification before retaking it; the tower changes hands twice before the assault is called off. Furious at the failure, Suleiman condemns his commander Mustafa Pasha to death, and relents only when senior officials of his own court intervene.

Kelly DeVries, 'How the Sultan Won? Suleiman's Successful Siege Tactics at Rhodes,' in The 1522 Siege of Rhodes, ed. S. D. Philipps (Routledge, 2022), 85-104, as directed by this project's own request; corroborated in outline by this project's own Heritage Narrative source, GREECE_LP_AppText_ASSET_19, scene 'SULEIMAN,' and by this project's own Statement of Significance source material for the Tower of Spain.

The Women of Rhodes

While the men hold the walls, the women of Rhodes run to every point of the battle, carrying bread and wine to the defenders standing their ground under the sun. Where they cannot feed the fight, they join it: hauling rocks to the battlements and tipping boiling water down onto the attackers below, an improvised second line of defence the chroniclers remembered alongside the soldiers themselves.

This project's own Heritage Narrative source, GREECE_LP_AppText_ASSET_19, scene 'ANASTASIA,' corroborated by DeVries 2022, as above, for the general character of civilian participation in the 24 September assault.

Anastasia at the Tower of Spain

A decorative open-book-shaped commemorative relief mounted on an exterior wall, bearing painted illustrations and inscribed Latin and Greek text dated 1522 telling the story of Anastasia's death — The commemorative plaque on the outside wall of the Palace of the Grand Master, shaped as an open book and inscribed in Latin (‘De morte Anastasiae’) and Greek (‘Ο Θάνατος της Αναστασίας’), dated 1522 — the single surviving physical trace of the legend told here.

Among them, local memory keeps the name of one woman apart: Anastasia, whose husband, an Englishman among the Order's own defenders, falls earlier in the same battle. She takes up his armour and fights at the Tower of Spain to the very end. When the battle turns against the defenders of her own section of wall, she kills her two children first, rather than let them fall into Janissary hands and the slavery that was the customary fate of Christian captives. Then, sword in hand, she charges the enemy, and fights until she falls on the besieged battlements of her own home. A plaque on the outside wall of the Palace of the Grand Master tells her story to this day.

Kelly DeVries, 'How the Sultan Won? Suleiman's Successful Siege Tactics at Rhodes,' in The 1522 Siege of Rhodes, ed. S. D. Philipps (Routledge, 2022), 85-104.

Gallery

Photo gallery

Nine views › the tower, the bastion, and the moat — Anastasia’s memorial appears with her story, above

Assessment

Significance criteria

Nine-criteria framework › International importance

Rarity

Free-standing gunpowder-age towers subsequently encased within perimetric bastions are not unique at Rhodes, but the gun-gallery is identified, with those of St Paul, St Peter and Italy, among a small number of more sophisticated emplacements — a limited, though not singular, typological category.

High

Representativeness

A textbook illustration, in an early and technically sophisticated form, of the transition from medieval tower defence to gunpowder-resistant bastion engineering.

Exceptional

Aesthetic value

A compact, well-preserved fortified silhouette projecting into the moat, with clearly visible gun-loops and a carved coat of arms; among the more visually distinctive stretches of the circuit across multiple photographic viewpoints.

High

Integrity

The core defensive fabric is not documented as having undergone major later rebuilding, suggesting comparatively high structural integrity — though the absence of a dedicated modern restoration-campaign publication for this specific monument means this assessment cannot be corroborated against detailed conservation records in the way it can for the Bastion of St George.

High

Historical value

Site of the single decisive breach of the 1522 siege, of the dramatic general assault of 24 September, and of the final weeks of bombardment and negotiation leading to the Order's December 1522 surrender.

Exceptional

Symbolic, spiritual & social value

Setting of the Anastasia legend — enduring civic memory, kept alive by a public plaque — combined with documented wartime sacrifice and the display of Andreas d'Amaral's quartered remains.

Exceptional

Scientific value

No dedicated archaeological excavation of the Tower of Spain itself is documented, unlike the Bastion of St George and the bastion of St Athanasios; this assessment rests on documented construction phases and inscriptions rather than excavation findings.

Medium

Interpretive potential

Combines a clear architectural narrative of gunpowder-age fortification with one of the most vivid and human siege stories associated with any single monument in this project — the Anastasia legend — alongside directly documented dramatic military history.

Exceptional

Importance level

Rests on its role as the site of the decisive breach, its vivid siege-era legend, and its status as a distinctive element underpinning the Outstanding Universal Value of the UNESCO-inscribed Medieval City of Rhodes.

International

Statement of significance

“A day of bad fortune for us ... and the beginning of our ruin.” (Jacques de Bourbon, on the breach of 10 October 1522.)

The Tower of Spain, together with the Moat of the Medieval Town of Rhodes, the Bastion of St George and the wider circuit of the Hospitaller fortifications, illustrates, in an early and technically sophisticated form, the transition from medieval to gunpowder-age military architecture: a free-standing round tower, raised before 1480, encased in 1489 within a bastion carrying a narrow gun-gallery under Grand Master Pierre d'Aubusson, whose own carved coat of arms and date remain legible on its façade today.

The monument is also, both physically and in enduring local memory, the site of the single most consequential episode of the 1522 siege of Rhodes: the breach of the Spanish-sector wall, opened 10 October 1522 and never resealed, which a contemporary chronicler called 'the beginning of our ruin.' Its sector saw the Order's last Grand Master, Philippe Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, personally command its defence for thirty-four days and nights, its chief engineer Gabriele Tadino da Martinengo wounded directing its countermines, and its Grand Chancellor Andreas d'Amaral tried and executed for treason in the siege's final weeks — and it preserves, in the legend of Anastasia, one of the most vivid human stories associated with any single monument in this project, documented for this document, per direct instruction, by Kelly DeVries's 2022 account of the siege.

This significance rests on a single, compact monument whose documentary record is unusually concentrated around the dramatic weeks of 1522, in contrast to the longer institutional history spread across other REBOOT monuments at Rhodes. What remains open, and is reported as such throughout, is the absence of a dedicated modern archaeological or restoration-campaign publication specific to this monument, and the precise historicity of the Anastasia legend beyond its commemorative plaque and its retelling in this project's own sources.

Taken together, these qualities give the Tower of Spain significance of International importance: an early and sophisticated example of the Hospitaller Order's gunpowder-age fortification engineering, and the site — both physically and in enduring local memory — of the single most consequential episode of the 1522 siege of Rhodes, the breach of the Spanish-sector wall that opened the way to the city's eventual surrender.

National

Hellenic Republic: ΥΑ 23084/737/25-8-1948 — ΦΕΚ 10/23-9-1948 (Ministerial Decision declaring the monuments of the Medieval Town of Rhodes protected under Greek Archaeological Law; subsequently confirmed under Law 3028/2002).

UNESCO

World Heritage property: Medieval City of Rhodes (ref. 493), inscribed 1988, meeting criteria (ii), (iv) and (v). The Tower of Spain, together with the city's other towers, bastions and moats, forms part of the fortification system whose scale and sophistication are among the principal grounds for the Medieval City of Rhodes' UNESCO inscription.

References

Papathanasiou-Zuhrt, Dorothea. GREECE_LP_AppText_ASSET_19, “Tower of Spain in Rhodes, Greece.” REBOOT Erasmus+ project Heritage Narrative asset, Object No. 19; Story Title ‘ANASTASIA.’ This document's principal source for the Anastasia and Suleiman narrative scenes used in Story, above, and for the gallery slide captions used in Gallery, above.
DeVries, Kelly. ‘How the Sultan Won? Suleiman’s Successful Siege Tactics at Rhodes.’ In The 1522 Siege of Rhodes, edited by S. D. Philipps, 85–104. London and New York: Routledge, 2022. The source specifically directed for the Anastasia story by this project's own instruction for this document; consulted for the general assault of 24 September 1522 used in Story, above.
Pavlides, V. Rhodes 1306-1522. A Story. Rhodes: Image Editions, 1999. Source for the account of Gabriele Tadino da Martinengo's shaving-bowl countermine-detection system used in Testimony, above.
Setton, Kenneth M. ‘Hadrian VI, the Fall of Rhodes, and Renewal of the War in Italy.’ Chapter 6 in The Papacy and the Levant (1204–1571), Vol. III: The Sixteenth Century. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1976. This document's principal academic source for the chronology of the 1522 siege: the breach of the Spanish-sector wall, 10–30 October 1522, the execution of Andreas d'Amaral, and the final weeks and surrender negotiations, used throughout History, Persons & Events and Testimony, above.
Vertot, René Aubert, Abbé de. The History of the Knights Hospitallers of St. John of Jerusalem. London, 1757. Cross-referenced for the defence of the bastion of Spain during the 1522 siege, including the crisis of the general assault of 24 September, Gabriele Tadino da Martinengo's wounding while directing the countermines there, and Grand Master Villiers de l'Isle-Adam's personal command of the post for thirty-four days and nights; consulted to resolve a discrepancy between two versions of this project's own heritage-narrative source material over the nature of Martinengo's wound.
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Manousou-Della, M., and A. Dellas, eds. Medieval Town of Rhodes: Restoration Works 2000–2008. Rhodes: Hellenic Ministry of Culture, 2008. Covers the neighbouring bastions of St John, St Athanasios, St George and del Carretto individually, but not the Tower of Spain, a gap noted in History, above.
Manousou-Della, M. ‘Medieval Fortifications of Rhodes: Methodology for Their Restoration.’ Rhodes: Hellenic Ministry of Culture, 2000. Illustrates its methodology via the bastion of St John and the 'England' earthwork; no content specific to the Tower / Bastion of Spain.
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REBOOT Statement of Significance: Bastion of St George, Rhodes (2026) — cross-referenced for the dual Auvergne / St George naming pattern discussed in Fabric, above, for the sector neighbouring the Tower of Spain to the north, and for the display of Andreas d'Amaral's severed head noted in Persons & Events, above.
REBOOT Statement of Significance: Inn of Auvergne, Rhodes (2026) — cross-referenced for the Post of Auvergne, immediately north of the Tower of Spain, and for Pierre d'Aubusson's wider fortification programme.
REBOOT Statement of Significance: Palace of the Grand Master, Rhodes (2026) — cross-referenced for the commemorative plaque to Anastasia on the Palace's own exterior wall, discussed in Story, above.
UNESCO World Heritage Centre. “Medieval City of Rhodes.” World Heritage List, ref. 493. Inscribed 1988.
Tyerman, Christopher. The Hospitallers: Knights of St John. Hertford College, Oxford; general history of the Order's foundation, militarisation and later crises, consulted for general background only and not specific to the Tower of Spain.