Apollona is a traditional mountain village in the central interior of Rhodes, sitting on the wooded slopes near Mount Attavyros, the island’s highest peak. It is one of the quietest and most authentic inland settlements on Rhodes, a place where everyday rural Greek life carries on much as it has for generations, far from the … Read more
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
Kattavia is the southernmost village on Rhodes, a small, traditional agricultural community set among open farmland near the island’s far tip, well beyond the resorts of the east coast. It is the last real settlement on the road south, with a modest village square, a church, and a couple of tavernas where farmers and the … Read more
Eleousa is one of the most atmospheric and least-commercialised places in the interior of Rhodes, a semi-abandoned model village set among the pine forests of the north-central highlands. It was built during the Italian occupation of the Dodecanese as a planned farming settlement called Campochiaro, and its grand rationalist public buildings, now weathered and partly … Read more
Soroni is a working agricultural village on the north-west coast of Rhodes, set on the main west-coast road a little inland from the sea and roughly midway between the town of Rhodes and the ancient site of Kamiros. It is not a purpose-built resort but a lived-in community of farmers, smallholdings and family tavernas, where … Read more
Lachania sits in the far south of Rhodes, set back from the coast on the inland slopes above Gennadi and Plimmiri, and it remains one of the quietest traditional settlements on the island. The village keeps two distinct faces: an older upper quarter of narrow lanes and weathered stone houses, and a lower square where … Read more
Siana is a small traditional village set high on the south-western slopes of Mount Akramytis on the Greek island of Rhodes, roughly between the wine village of Embonas to the north and the coastal castle of Monolithos to the south. The settlement clings to the mountainside in a cluster of whitewashed stone houses, with narrow … Read more
Psinthos sits in a fertile green valley in the wooded interior of north-central Rhodes, far enough from the coastal resorts to feel like a different island altogether. Fed by abundant springs that keep its fields and gardens lush even through the dry summer, the village has long been a quiet agricultural settlement built around water, … Read more
Lardos sits a few kilometres inland from the east coast of Rhodes, south-west of Lindos, and it is one of the island’s most genuinely lived-in villages rather than a purpose-built resort. Its heart is a busy central square, or plateia, ringed with tavernas, kafeneia and bakeries where villagers and visitors share the same shaded tables … Read more
Gennadi sits on the south-eastern coast of Rhodes, far enough from the busy resorts of the north to feel like a different island altogether. The village proper rises a short way inland from the water, a cluster of narrow whitewashed lanes, small churches and a shaded square where older residents still gather at the kafeneia. … Read more