One can easily overlook Rhodes on a map as it is truly tiny: 80 km long and 40 km wide. It is situated only 20 km from the Turkish coastline, among the waters of Aegean Sea. Since the dawn of history Rhodes has been under many different rules and has seen numerous wars and battles. The most poetic and worth mentioning may be the one between two ancient painters : Appeles and Protogenes.
Rhodes offers something for the body as well as for the soul. The weather in Rhodes is typically Greek: summer is always hot and dry, so it is not the best part of the year to pay a visit there. Spring and autumn are reasonably the best choices as the temperatures oscillate between 10 and 20 degrees of Celsius - which is best if you seek a place to take a deep breath. Though certain vagaries of weather cannot be underestimated. Those seasons also guarantee that you will be eager to explore the historical background of that beautiful island, for instance its varied architecture.
The architecture of Rhodes Island may be divided into two categories: coastal and inland. The first one is well represented by picturesque ports like those in Rhodes or Lindos, built like huge amphitheatres. Inland style can be explained using the example of small villages hidden among hills and mountains. They usually are surrounded by walls, houses crowded on the slopes tightly ring innumerable valleys of Rhodes. There can be nothing more eyecatching than to see a mist slowly lifting from the very bottom of such a valley to get dispersed in the first warm rays of the rising sun 