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RHODES Did You Know?

Rhodes New Town
NEW TOWN actually dates from the
Ottoman period, when
it was created by
ΝΈΑ ΠΌΛΗ displaced Greeks.

The New Town (Neohóri) grew steadily after the Aquarium 0 metres 300 N
Ottoman conquest, and it expanded even more during Photis Kontoglou. Further K A L IM N O U TI LOU HARITOU PSERIMOU 300 metres (325 yards)
the Italian colonial period. Architecture here is marked along, the mock-Venetian- SQUARE Modern Greek Élli 0 yards 300
Art Museum
by buildings from every era, running the gamut from Gothic Government House PATMO U KASTELLORIZOU Beach
old Greek cottages to modern high-rises, by way of (Nomarhío) has ornate
Neo-Classical villas and Art Deco public buildings. decorations and is surrounded Windy AK T I M IAO U L I GEORG IO U PAPANIKO L A OU Murad Reis
by grand vaulted arcades.
Cemetery
PLATIA
Unfor tunately there is no Beach IRO ON Mosque of KOUNDOURIOTI
1 Nikólaos, now a lighthouse, access to the general public. NIK. MANDILARA G. GRIVA KATHOPOULI KAZOULI Murad Reis
At the north end of 7
which rises from the promon-
Mandráki Harbour tory past the three medieval Martíou is the Mosque of ORFANIDOU National Theatre
Ágios
PLATIA
The harbour, lively with yachts windmills. Elegant public Murad Reis, with its graceful KRITIS I O N O S D R A G O U M I G. EFSTATHIOU VASILEOS Nikólaos
and excursion boats, is the buildings, built by the Italians minaret. It was named after a A KTI MI AOU LI GEORGIOU LEONTOS APOLLONIOU RODIOU MA N D I LAR A PO LY TE K HNIOU City Hall GEROGIOU II
hub of life in Rhodes, the link in the 1920s, line Mandráki Turkish admiral serving under AMARANTOU IEROU LOCHOU Evangelismós
between the New and nearby harbour: the post office, law Süleyman who was killed in ORFANIDOU G. GRIVA DILMPERAKI AMERIKIS
Old towns. Here, locals take courts, town hall, police the 1522 siege of Rhodes. 28 OKTOVRIOU
PLATIA
their evening stroll, or vólta. station and the National Situated in the grounds is 28 OKTOVRIOU NEW TOWN V. GEORGIOU I 2 5 MA RT IOU 7 M A R T I O U
Bronze doe and stag statues Theatre all stand in a row. Villa Kleoboulos, which was A . D I A K O U FANOURAKI Mandráki
guard the harbour entrance, Nearby, on Plateía home to the British writer Mezes THEMELI M AK A R IOU Harbour
where ancient marvel the Eleftherías, the splendid Lawrence Durrell (p72) ERITHROU STAVROU AMMOHOSTOU
Colossus of Rhodes was church of the Evangelismós between 1945 and 1947. Also ANTH. ZERVOU L A M PR AK I PLATIA PLASTIRA
believed to have stood. (Annunciation), a 1925 replica in the grounds is a cemetery A . D I A K O U S. VENIZELOU KYPROU G ALLIAS
From here, the harbour of the Knight’s Church of for Ottoman notables. I. ME TA X A E RIT HROU STAVROU
sweeps round to the 15th- St John has superb frescoes Heading north from the KARPATHOU D. THEODORAKI AVEROF Néa
Agora
century fortress of Ágios by the neo-Byzantine painter area around Mandráki harbour, Monte Smith A . PA P A G O U
2 km (1.2 miles)
Rodíni Park
172 PA PA LO UK A 3 km (2 miles) Rhodes Old Town
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