Rhodes - Sokrates Street

(Local Name: Odós Sokrátis) From the Suleiman Mosque Sokrates Street, flanked by bazaars and always bustling with activity, runs east through the center of the old town towards the Commercial Harbor. Southeast of the Marine Gate are the Commercial Tribunal (1507) and the Archbishop's Palace (15th century), on the north side of Archbishop's Square, in which can be seen the beautiful Seahorse Fountain.

South of Sokrates Street is a picturesque maze of lanes around Fanoúrios Street, Homer Street (Odós Omírou), both spanned by flying buttresses, and Pythagoras Street, with numerous mosques, including the Ibrahim Pasha Mosque, the oldest in the town (1531), and, opposite the magnificent Suleiman Baths with