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The port city was well fortified, with a stone wall surrounding the city, and stone streets creating pathways for merchants and traders.

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The beaches on Rhodes may be rocky rather than sandy, but they are just as beautiful.

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Like most of the cities of ruins on higher ground, there are places with excellent vantage points of the more modern city below.

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When Italians occupied this island in the 1920s, they tried to improve the grounds at Filerimos. They built a walk to Calvary, with stations of the cross leading to a large cross overlooking the island. (If you look closely, you'll see that the text…

20090521_Greece_Rhodes_Filerimos_Ruins.JPG
A much earlier settlement, called Ialyssos, had its own Acropolis here on Rhodes.

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Trees frame the walkways through the settlement at Filerimos.

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Built by the Knights of Malta in the 14th century, this monastery and its grounds were renovated and rebuilt in the 1920s.
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