Dodecanese
Ever pined for the old Greece, where timeless islands beckon modern-day adventurers just as they did Odysseus and Alexander? Enter the far-flung Dodecanese archipelago, curving through the southeastern Aegean parallel to the ever-visible shoreline of Turkey. The footprints of everyone from Greeks and Romans to crusading medieval knights, and Byzantine and Ottoman potentates to 20th-century Italian bureaucrats, are found here. Beyond better-known Rhodes and Kos, enigmatic islands beg to be explored.
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Attraction in Rhodes TownStreet of the Knights -
Attraction in Rhodes TownPalace of the Grand Master -
Attraction in LindosAcropolis of Lindos -
Attraction in Rhodes TownKnights’ Quarter -
Attraction in Rhodes TownArchaeological Museum -
Attraction in DodecaneseMonastery of the Apocalypse - Attraction in DodecaneseMonastery of St John the Theologian
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