Megiste Castle

(Local Name: Meyísti) The chief place on the island of Kastellórizo, Meyísti, a village of brightly painted houses, many of them now abandoned, lies above its sheltered harbor in the northeast of the island, dominated by a castle (13th- 16th C.) of the Knights of St John, which occupies the site of a fort of the fourth century B.C. At the foot of the castle hill is a domed Lycian tomb (fourth century B.C.). The mosque now houses a small museum.

An excursion which should not be missed is to the Blue Grotto in the southeast of the island.