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A trip to Lindos is an essential excursion for every visitor to Rhodes. The road to Lindos runs south from Rhodes, at some distance from the east coast for much of the way.
Lindos is one of three ancient cities on the island (the others being Ialysos and Kameiros). With its magnificent situation between two bays, its combination of sandy beaches and bizarrely shaped limestone crags, its whitewashed houses, its medieval castle and ancient acropolis, Lindos is the most striking and impressive of the three.
Remains of the Neolithic period and finds in Mycenaean cemeteries bear witness to the occupation of this site, on the only natural harbor on the island, from the earliest times. During the Dorian period Lindos - a city mentioned in Homer - owned more than half the island. About 700 B.C. it founded a colony at Gela in Sicily. Its heyday was in the seventh and sixth centuries under the tyrant (sole ruler) Kleoboulos, one of the Seven Sages, who built a temple to the goddess of Lindos on the acropolis.
Lindos is one of three ancient cities on the island (the others being Ialysos and Kameiros). With its magnificent situation between two bays, its combination of sandy beaches and bizarrely shaped limestone crags, its whitewashed houses, its medieval castle and ancient acropolis, Lindos is the most striking and impressive of the three.
Remains of the Neolithic period and finds in Mycenaean cemeteries bear witness to the occupation of this site, on the only natural harbor on the island, from the earliest times. During the Dorian period Lindos - a city mentioned in Homer - owned more than half the island. About 700 B.C. it founded a colony at Gela in Sicily. Its heyday was in the seventh and sixth centuries under the tyrant (sole ruler) Kleoboulos, one of the Seven Sages, who built a temple to the goddess of Lindos on the acropolis.
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Líndos Archaeological Site, Líndos , Greece
Hours:
April 1 to October 31: 8am-7pm; Mon: 12pm-7pm
November 1 to March 31: 8:30am-3pm; Closed: Mon
Always closed on: New Year's Day (January 1), Greek National Day (March 25), May Day / Labor Day (May 1), Christmas - Christian (December 25), Day after Christmas, St Stephen's Day, Boxing Day (December 26), Easter - Christian
Tips: Admission is free on Sundays between November and March.
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Chapel at Lindos.
Lindos Castle, Rhodes.
Old building in Lindos.
Street scene in Lindos.
View of the Acropolis at Lindos.
