The Mosque of Suleiman stands at the top of Sokratous Street, its rose-pink walls and slender minaret rising above the medieval lanes of Rhodes Old Town. It is the most prominent Ottoman monument on the island, raised to commemorate Suleiman the Magnificent’s conquest of Rhodes from the Knights of St John in the sixteenth century … Read more
The Byzantine Museum of Rhodes occupies one of the most storied buildings in the walled Old Town: the medieval church of Panagia tou Kastrou, Our Lady of the Castle. This is the oldest and largest Byzantine church surviving inside the fortifications, and its stone shell has carried the town’s changing faiths for centuries, standing in … Read more
The Jewish Quarter of Rhodes, known in Ladino as La Juderia and in Greek as the Evraiki, occupies the quiet eastern corner of the medieval Old Town, a short walk from the grander streets that most visitors follow. For centuries this neighbourhood was home to a large and flourishing Sephardic community that gave the walled … Read more
Rhodes is one of the most rewarding islands in Greece for a honeymoon because it gathers so many different kinds of romance into a single, easy-to-reach destination. A couple can spend a slow morning on a quiet beach, wander a medieval old town in the afternoon, and watch the sun drop behind a clifftop village … Read more
The Street of the Knights, known in Greek as Odos Ippoton, is a cobbled medieval avenue in the Old Town of Rhodes and one of the best-preserved and most famous medieval streets in Europe. Running uphill through the former knightly quarter, it is lined with the austere stone inns once occupied by the Knights of … Read more
The Archaeological Museum of Rhodes is the island’s principal archaeological museum, housing finds from across Rhodes and nearby Dodecanese islands inside the medieval Hospital of the Knights of Saint John in the Old Town. Its galleries span prehistoric, Archaic, Classical and Hellenistic material, and its star marbles include the worn Marine Venus and the crouching … Read more
Rhodes shopping spans the full range from quick tourist souvenirs to genuine island crafts and farm products, sold across the medieval Old Town, the modern New Town and the craft villages of the interior. The island rewards browsers who look past the postcard stands toward leather sandals, hand-thrown ceramics, gold and silver jewellery, thyme honey, … Read more
Rhodes nightlife is the island’s evening and after-dark scene, spanning lively party resorts, town bar streets, characterful Old Town cocktail and wine bars, and gentle taverna dinners by the sea. It ranges from full-on clubbing for a young summer crowd to relaxed sunset drinks for couples and families, so almost every kind of traveller finds … Read more
The Palace of the Grand Master, known locally as the Kastello, is a medieval fortified palace standing at the top of the Street of the Knights in Rhodes Old Town, built by the Knights of Saint John as both a fortress and the residence of their Grand Master. It is one of the most complete … Read more
A Rhodes itinerary is a day-by-day plan that groups the island’s sights by area, so you spend more time seeing the medieval Old Town, Lindos and the beaches and less time driving between them. Because Rhodes is large, a well-ordered route is the difference between a relaxed trip and a rushed one. The plan below … Read more