Rhodes Old Town

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Where it sits

The circle is Rhodes Old Town and roughly a 10-minute walk around it.

How far is everything?

From the middle of this area to the city's headline sights — pick your own on the city page and these become your list.

• Mandraki Harbour9 min walk730 m
• New Town (Elli & Mandraki) (beach)11 min walk950 m
• Elli Beach & the town beaches16 min walk1.3 km
• Faliraki nightlife34 min taxi11.3 km
• Anthony Quinn Bay37 min taxi12.4 km
• The Valley of the Butterflies55 min taxi18.4 km
• Tsambika Beach71 min taxi23.8 km
• Lindos & its Acropolis123 min taxi40.9 km
• St Paul's Bay, Lindos124 min taxi41.2 km

On your doorstep

What you’re living next to if you stay here.

• 1.Rhodes Old Town — The largest inhabited medieval town in Europe, and a UNESCO World Heritage Site — a walled city of cobbled lanes, Gothic and Ottoman buildings, hidden courtyards and a moat you can walk. Lose an afternoon in its lanes, then again at night when the day crowds go and it turns floodlit and magical; the reason to come to Rhodes.
• 3.Palace of the Grand Master — The mighty fortress-palace crowning the Old Town, built by the crusader Knights of St John and rebuilt grandly under Italian rule — vaulted halls, Roman mosaic floors and a museum of the medieval city. The single grandest building on Rhodes; combine it with a walk down the Street of the Knights below.
• 4.The Street of the Knights — One of the best-preserved medieval streets in Europe — a cobbled climb lined with the honey-stone 'inns' of the Knights of St John, each carved with the coats of arms of their nation. Walk it up to the Grand Master's palace; atmospheric and beautifully intact, it's the Old Town at its most storybook.
• 14.Old Town tavernas & Greek meze — Eating in Rhodes means long, lazy tables of Greek meze — grilled octopus, tzatziki, fried cheese, stuffed vine leaves and fresh fish, washed down with ouzo or local wine. Skip the touristy squares for the quieter Old Town back lanes and the Jewish Quarter; that's where the good, honest tavernas hide.
• 16.The Jewish Quarter — The quiet south-east corner of the Old Town — the Kahal Shalom synagogue (the oldest in Greece), a moving Holocaust memorial in the Square of the Martyrs, and lanes of quieter tavernas and craft shops. A poignant, atmospheric wander away from the main drag, and a reminder of the city's layered, tragic history.