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5 there’s a small photo exhibit
on the history of the place.
Koskinoú The lido is used for beginners’ Did You Know?
Κοσκινού scuba dives. Through the pirate fortress before
pines towards the south there
Feraklós castle was
EXPERIENCE The Dodecanese This old village features 7 bay, lined with olive groves, at
⌂ 10 km (6 miles) S
are rocky coves with tavernas.
originally built as a
of Rhodes town @
becoming a prison.
traditional Rhodian houses
with votsalotó (pebble-mosaic
Faliráki
floors) and courtyards. The
church of Isódia tis Theotókou
Φαληράκι
has a multitiered bell tower.
⌂ 15 km (9 miles) S
Traganoú. Near the start of
Nearby, Réni Koskinoú is the
of Rhodes town @
closest resort strip to Rhodes
town, though beaches here
Faliráki, one of Rhodes’s most
sea sits the medieval chapel
popular beach resorts,
of Panagía Katholikí, with
are not the best.
comprises two zones: Faliráki the main road down to the
frescoes that include an
North, with its luxury hotels almond-eyed Virgin
and a family-friendly vibe, Enthroned.
6 "- and the southern zone, which
Pigés Kallithéas was a young clubbers’ resort Faliráki Water Park
Πηγές Καλλιθέας in the 1980s and 90s. The " ⌂ Faliráki # May–Oct:
party has now moved to other 9:30am–6pm daily (to 7pm
⌂ Leoforos Kallitheas 80 @ islands, but there are still Jun–Aug) ∑ water-park.gr
# 8am–8pm daily (closes fine beaches. For the more
earlier in winter) adventurous, there’s bungee-
∑ kallitheasprings.gr
jumping. The northern sector 8
South of Koskinoú lies Pigés also offers the huge Faliráki
Kallithéas, a former spa built Water Park. Eptá Pigés
in 1929 that has been restored South from Faliráki, rocky Επτά Πηγές
to its former Art Deco glory. Ladikó Bay is worth a visit. ⌂ 26 km (16 miles) S
It’s a wonderfully atmospheric It was used as a location for
spot with two rotundas, one the Gregory Peck film The of Rhodes town
fringed with palm trees. Guns of Navarone. Continuing Eptá Pigés, or Seven Springs,
Fashion and film shoots, as in the same direction brings is one of Rhodes’s leading
well as weddings, occur here you to Afándou, with a good woodland beauty spots.
regularly. In the large rotunda sandy beach and a pebbly Peacocks strut beside streams
and waterfalls, and the springs
feed a central reservoir. The
springs were harnessed by
the Italians to irrigate the
orange groves of Kolýmbia
to the east. The lake can be
reached either by a woodland
trail, or you can shuffle ankle-
deep in water through a
185-m (605-ft) tunnel.
Further east along the
coast, the 17th-century Moní
Tsambíkas sits on a mountain-
top at 300 m (985 ft). Legend
has it that the 11th-century
The elegant, palm-fringed
entrance to the spa complex
at Pigés Kallithéas
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