Lindos | Rhodes Island Greece.

Lindos village, 47km from Rhodes city, and 30 km from Afandou village, lies below the Acropolis and is a swowpiece of dazzling white 17th-century houses, many with countryards with black and white hohlakia (pebble mosaic) floors.

The village is unquestionably pretty and atmospheric but its charm is severely put to the test between 10am and 4pm daily when literally thousands of day-trippers swamp this hapless settlement. This can be a serious trial, with thousants of people trying to do the same thing at the same time.

 

Lindos is the most famous of the Dodecanese's ancient cities, receiving 500,000 visitors a year. It was an important Doric settlement because of its excellent vantage point and good harbour. It was first established around 20000 BC and is overlaid with a conglomeration of Byzantine, Frankish and Turkish remains.

The Acropolis of Lindos is spectacularly perched atop a 116m-high rock. It's about 10-minute climb to the well signposted entrance gate. Donkey rides to the acropolis. The site is open 8am to 6.30pm Tuesday to Sunday and 12.30 pm to 6.30 pm Monday.

 

Lindos Main Beach, featured on all the pretty Lindos postcards, is to the north of the village. With its three lines of beach umbrellas and loungers, its protected sandy cove and generally clean-looking water, the beach is popular and nearly always crowded.

St Paul's Beach on the southern side of Lindos is ostensibly where Paul landed in AD 58 to evangelise the Rhodians. This quieter, sandy cove is much smaller and almost cut off from the sea by an impossibly narrow opening which is said to have miraculously opened up when St Paul was looking for a place to land.

 

Buses to and from Rhodes Town run more or less hourly from 8.30 am with a further eight buses daily linking Lindos with Pefkos farther south. The last bus back to Rhodes is about 7pm. Afandou is linked in between these busses routes.

Excursion caiques run daily from Rhodes town.

 

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