With its grotto-like bar and pebble-mosaic courtyard, Christos offers New Town visitors a tranquil escape. During the day it doubles as an art gallery; after dark the fairy lights twinkle. Perfect for a cocktail.
Christos Garden
Rhodes Town
Lonely Planet's must-see attractions
25.65 MILES
A short, steep-stepped footpath climbs the rocky 116m-high headland above the village to reach Lindos’ beautifully preserved Acropolis. First fortified in…
0.63 MILES
A weathered, sun-kissed stone lion, visible from the street, invites visitors into the magnificent 15th-century Knights' Hospital that holds Rhodes’…
18.33 MILES
Cradled in a natural hillside amphitheatre 1km up from the sea, the remarkably complete ruins of ancient Kamiros stand 34km southwest of Rhodes Town…
0.55 MILES
Essentially an occupying army, the Knights of St John transformed the northern segment of the Old Town during the 14th and 15th centuries, to create what…
0.47 MILES
From the outside, this magnificent castle-like palace looks much as it did when erected by the 14th-century Knights Hospitaller. During the 19th century,…
0.57 MILES
Austere and somewhat forbidding, the Street of the Knights (Ippoton) was home from the 14th century to the Knights Hospitaller who ruled Rhodes. The…
0.64 MILES
The Old Town’s central commercial and residential district, south of the Street of the Knights, is known as the Hora. Having acquired its current…
11.68 MILES
The so-called Valley of the Butterflies, 7km up from the west coast, and 32km southwest of Rhodes Town, is a major day-trip destination for package…
Nearby Rhodes Town attractions
0.28 MILES
The main gallery of the four-part Modern Greek Art Museum, near the New Town’s northern tip, holds paintings, engravings and sculptures by some of Greece…
2. Modern Greek Art Museum – New Wing
0.29 MILES
This gleaming extension to the New Town’s Modern Greek Art Museum stands immediately behind its parent building. Located on the site of the city’s ancient…
0.33 MILES
The grounds of this graceful mosque hold a Turkish cemetery and the Villa Cleobolus, where Lawrence Durrell lived in the 1940s, writing his book on Rhodes…
0.38 MILES
It’s well worth taking a look at the interior of this Gothic-style Orthodox church, beside Mandraki Harbour and built under Italian rule; it’s covered…
0.4 MILES
Set in the northwestern flank of the citadel walls, and completed in 1512 under the rule of Grand Master Emery d'Amboise, the most impressive approach to…
0.44 MILES
The path at the foot of the stairway that drops from the arch alongside St Anthony’s Gate passes through a 30m tunnel in the walls to reach the broadest…
0.45 MILES
The innermost gate that leads into the Old Town near the palace, an impressive 200m walk in from the D’Amboise Gate. Italian troops entered Rhodes along…