Visit the best places in Rhodes

Rhodes is famous for its beautiful, organized beaches that offer its guests.

The large shopping market offering a wide range of clothing, food, and more than even the most demanding consumers can find.

Large and historical monuments, museums, many churches, ancient monasteries, lush forests with beautiful vegetation and easily accessible.

Rhodes becomes more attractive at night with the most beautiful clubs and bars playing Greek and foreign music from the early afternoon until the early morning.

Rhodes, in general, is for everyone.

For our holidays to be unique, they must also be safe. 

Rhodes attracts many visitors every summer, so the island’s authorities take the visitor’s security seriously. 

The roads on our island are updated every year to make it easy for everyone to reach their destination. 

Hotels have the best specifications for the best accommodation for their clients. Police are everywhere 

throughout the island, and above all the people of Rhodes are always polite and respectful of their visitors.

Some tips for safer vacations, please read carefully.

Do not swim in the pool or on the beach with a full stomach. It is advisable to swim 3 hours after eating.

Never swim after consuming a high dose of alcohol.

Do not stay in the sun for too long without the proper sunscreen. The consequences can be serious.

If driving a car, do not drive, and always abide by the regulations. 

This way you can avoid accidents. If you don’t know where to go or get lost, 

always keep a local guide with you, always provide the most important information 

about the island, and provide a map where you can navigate.
Also, note the phone number of the hotel where you reside and request information.

Before you visit any shop or restaurant, look for reviews from the internet from people who have already visited the place. 

This ensures that you get something worth trying, it is quality controlled and you avoid leaving unhappy.

If you are a pedestrian, be very careful when crossing a busy road, 

always be sure to go before crossing the street.

 Always look for a pedestrian crossing and always report any irregularities you see to the competent authorities.

The largest island in the Dodecanese, just 17 kilometers from the Turkish coast, and 

one of the most popular destinations in the Mediterranean. 

It has endless sandy beaches, beautiful hiking trails, many picturesque taverns and very good nightlife. 

Rhodes is quite hot from mid-April until mid-November, so its tourist season is quite extensive compared to other tourist destinations.

The island has a rich collection of historical sites and monuments that bring to life Greek history. 

In Rhodes we find everything from classical ancient temples to castles and states 

of the Crusader Knights as well as Ottoman temples.

The town of Rhodes is divided into an old town within the castle of the Knights 

and into a new town peripheral to the castle. Apart from the city, 

Lindos can be found on the island, where there is an archaeological site and a very picturesque village, 

Filerimo, Kameiro, the butterfly valley, Kalithea with the old thermal waters.

In Rhodes one can have fun in its many nightclubs. There are clubs, live bars, and centers with a Greek program.

The villages of Rhodes.
The island of Rhodes despite its size, has many villages. 

Each village has its own story, different pronunciation, and each has its own customs and customs. 

The only thing in common between them is the Greek hospitality and the smile of their people. 

Below is a detailed description of each village in Rhodes.

Koskinou, Kallithies, Asgourou, Psinthos, Afantou, Kolimbia, Archangelos, Malona, Massari, Haraki, Kalathos, Soroni, Tholos, Pilona, Lindos, Lardos, Pefkos, Kiotari, Asklipios, Archipoli, Messanagros,  Vati, Gennadi, Arnitha, Kritinia, Monolithos, Embonas, Apollakia, Istrios, Sianna, Agios Isidoros, Laerma, Kamiros Skala, Mandriko, Salakos, Dimilia, Eleousa, Archipoli, Apollona, Kalavarda, Paradisi, Fanes, Maritsa, Kalavarda

Ottoman Turks, Venetians, Franks, even the Italians, in the first half of the 20th century, gave their mark to what we today call Rhodian flavors.

Despite the tourist development that results in the reduction of agricultural and livestock production, 

many areas of the island retain their rural character.

Rhodian cuisine does not lack recipes based on fish and seafood (eg fish fried with pligouri), 

nor of course, fine cheeses (hard, soft and semi-hard), produced mainly in mountain villages.

Many dishes with meat such as goat’s kiddie (narrow and tall clay bag), chicken with burgundy,

spetsophy, and chicken with loukoumi (pasta).

Clams and slides stuffed, stuffed (tomatoes and peppers up to zucchini or onions), 

oven (pumpkin) in the oven, pumpkin, meatballs, chickpeas, and lentils with cyclamen and lentils are cyclamen only from local recipes.

Inexhaustible and the variety of sweets, among which are the melekounia (kind of pastel, offered 

at weddings and engagements), the pie offered in mementos, the ricelli (spoon sweet with must, 

dried figs, quinces and carrots), (with walnut stuffing), the sweet pumpkin and the wonderful sugar curd.

The city of Rhodes was born in the NE of the island in the year 408 BC. from the union of the three cities

of the island, Ialyssos, Kamiro, and Lindos.

In ancient Rhodes – the beauty of Greek cities – as historians call it, there were Priests, 

Markets, Stoa, Neoria, Stadiums, Conservatories, Philosophy and Rhetoric schools, five major ports and at least 3,000 statues.

But the masterpiece of all was Colossus. It was designed around 293 by Lindio Harri, a student of Lysippos. 

It was a huge bronze statue of the patron god Heli, 70ft high (about 31m). The Rhodians sold (300 talents) Demetrius’ siege engines when he stopped the siege and left defeated and made the statue that his construction lasted for 12 years. 

Ancient and medieval writers speak of the statue. It stayed in place for only 66 years and fell to the earthquake of 227 but was not restored, but fearing some kind of us, Strabo tells us. 

Nine centuries remained until the colossus was taken by the Arabian Moabite Caliph in 653 AD, and he sold it for copper to a Jew from Edessa who needed 900 camels to carry him.

The problem that concerns current researchers is where the colossus was standing.

 Illustrating a phrase on the pedestal, engraved at the base of the colossus, 

they said that they were placed “not only above the sea but also on land”, 

imagining that he was standing at the entrance of the harbor with his legs open with one foot pressed on one end of it, 

across the harbor and with the other on the opposite side, while with a raised handheld light as a lighthouse for the passing boats entering the port. From the 16th century, such an engraving has been presented that has prevailed to this day.

Younger scholars, however, find it impossible to be near the sea and conclude that the only place that could be erected in the enclosure of a temple, and most likely in the Sanctuary of the Sun God where today is the palace of the great Master of the Knights. 

Nearby, a beautiful marble head with broken rays was found near the Rhodes Museum. 

Also in the way that Strabo describes him, it seems clear that he saw him on land: “he has now broken off his knees and fell from an earthquake”. 

If it were in the sea it would be completely lost or only a part would appear, which is what the author mentioned. The Colossus of Rhodes was a hymn to Art and Freedom.