Rhodes Trip Overview
Discover the ancient village of Lindos with its stunning 4,000-year-old acropolis on a 4-hour sightseeing tour! With an expert private guide, travel to Rhodes’ east coast along the scenic coastal roads, and then explore Lindos Acropolis (own expense) on a walking tour. Have a camera ready to capture sights of Byzantine ruins and Ancient Greek temple against the backdrop of the Bay of St Paul, and then visit the Church of the Ascension in the village. The itinerary on this private tour is flexible and can be tailored to your requirements.
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Duration: 4 hours
Starts: Rhodes, Greece
Trip Category: Private & Custom Tours >> Private Sightseeing Tours
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What to Expect When Visiting Rhodes, South Aegean, Greece
Discover the ancient village of Lindos with its stunning 4,000-year-old acropolis on a 4-hour sightseeing tour! With an expert private guide, travel to Rhodes’ east coast along the scenic coastal roads, and then explore Lindos Acropolis (own expense) on a walking tour. Have a camera ready to capture sights of Byzantine ruins and Ancient Greek temple against the backdrop of the Bay of St Paul, and then visit the Church of the Ascension in the village. The itinerary on this private tour is flexible and can be tailored to your requirements.
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Stop At: Village of Lindos, Lindos Rhodes, Greece Greece
Lindos is for most visitors the most impressive archaeological site on Rhodes. The dramatic natural landscape is enhanced by the picturesque quality of the more modern town, with the Lindos Acropolis rising dominantly on a steep cliff at 116 m height like a sovereign podium overlooking the sea, framed by mighty fortress walls.
Duration: 2 hours
Pass By: The Church of the Panagia, Lindos 851 07 Greece
Just off the main square in Lindos, this cross-shaped 14th century church has an octagonal dome and whitewashed walls. Its dark interior, with a black and white pebbled floor, is decorated with eighteenth-century frescoes of male saints on the right and female on the left. An inscription notes that additions were made to the building in 1489-90.
Stop At: Acropolis of Lindos, Lindos 851 07 Greece
On the summit of the Lindos Acropolis are the ruins of the goddess Athena Lindia, temples from the 4th century BC As well as the Propylaea, the great Hellenistic Stoa and the Byzantine chapel of Saint John. In the time of the Knights of St. John, the castle is surrounded by sturdier fortress walls while the flowering period of Lindos extends as a naval power up to the 19th century.
According to myth, the cult of Athena Lindia was pre-Hellenic, although this is not borne out by the sporadic excavation finds. The history of the sanctuary begins in the Geometric period (9th c. BC). In the Archaoc period the tyrant of Lindos, Kleoboulos, revived the cult and built a temple, probably on the site of an earlier one. The Archaic temple had the same Doric tetrastyle amphiprostyle plan as the subsequent one.
Duration: 1 hour
