Salakos is a small, green, spring-fed village on the lower slopes of Mount Profitis Ilias in north-central Rhodes, set apart from the island’s coastal resorts by its cool, shaded microclimate and forested interior. Water defines the place: the Nymph spring, known in Greek as Pigi tis Nymfis, rises near the village, and the local Nymfi … Read more
Mount Attavyros is the highest mountain on Rhodes, a bare, conical limestone summit rising to 1,215 metres in the west-central interior of the island, above the wine village of Embonas. Its smooth, treeless slopes give it a distinctive shape that is visible from much of Rhodes and, on clear days, from neighbouring islands and the … Read more
Mount Profitis Ilias rises to roughly 798 metres in the north-central interior of Rhodes, making it one of the island’s highest peaks after Attavyros. Unlike the sun-baked coast, its slopes are cloaked in a dense forest of Aleppo pine and cypress that holds a cool, shaded microclimate even at the height of summer. The mountain … Read more