A visitor takes photos of bronze Roman emperors in Rhodes. For 75 years, the Pervola, a 2-hectare archaeological tract beside the Palace of the Grand Master in Rhodes’ UNESCO-listed Medieval City, remained closed, serving as a storage yard, workshop and garage for antiquities officials. That changed after a 2021 inspection revealed, behind a perpetually locked gate, an unseen site containing layers of the island’s history. Officials describe the initial scene as overgrown and cluttered with more than 20,000 scattered finds. A vast effort cleared vegetation, documented and relocated artifacts, restored monuments and added visitor infrastructure, including accessible routes and lifts. Now reopened as an outdoor museum, Pervola presents Rhodes as a historical palimpsest, tracing classical, Roman, Hospitaller and Italian periods. Funded with €4.5 million from the Recovery Fund, the project aims to reconnect the site with public life. Fifteen thematic sections guide visitors throughout. [Enri Canaj]