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  • New Colossus of Rhodes will keep watch on drunken Britons

    02/27/2005 1:47:12 PM PST · by wagglebee · 14 replies · 1,763+ views
    UK Telegraph ^ | 2/27/05 | Harry de Quetteville
    More than two millennia after it was toppled by an earthquake, the Colossus of Rhodes - one of the seven wonders of the ancient world - is to rise again. Instead of standing astride the venerable port of Rhodes town, however, the 100ft bronze figure will tower over the island's downmarket resort of Faliraki, infamous for the drunken antics of thousands of British tourists who go there every year. Faliraki, about five miles south of Rhodes town, boasts a strip of bars and clubs a third of a mile long, where cut-price alcohol lures hordes of tourists on drinking binges...