The Dodecanese in one month
2024
Highlights of the trip
During your stay you can enjoy the following highlights: Culture / Heritage, Faune and flora, Discovery, Adventure / Sports & Leisure, Free time, Relaxation / Well-being.
Best times to go
The best time(s) to go is/are : Printemps, Eté, Automne.
Where to stay - Rhodes Ville ?
The map of your stay "The Dodecanese in one month"
Detail of the stay : The Dodecanese in one month
How to get there - Rhodes Ville
Arrival in Rhodes
Steps: Rhodes Ville
The main island of the Dodecanese retains an unparalleled medieval heritage. The knights of Saint-Jean have shaped the face of the old town, to be convinced, you will have to take the rue des Chevaliers and stop for a long time in the Palais des Grands-Maîtres, the most beautiful architectural example of this period. Then go to their former hospital, which now houses the Archaeological Museum of Rhodes. The old town, classified as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is well worth spending two full days in.
Places of interest : MUSÉE ARCHÉOLOGIQUE
Old town and former Jewish quarter
Steps: Rhodes Ville
It is the Ottoman historical origins of Rhodes-ville (Seat of Rhodes in 1522) that will catch your attention: in the old city, the district called "Chora" offers a striking testimony with its Suleiman the Magnificent mosque or its Turkish baths. The former Jewish quarter (juderia) is also to be visited from Martyron Evreon Square; the Jewish Museum of Rhodes reminds us how important the Jewish community of Rhodes was before the Second World War, and the synagogue is the oldest in Greece.
Places of interest : RHODES JEWISH MUSEUM BOURGOS PLACE MARTYRON EVREON
New city and beaches
Patmos
Steps: Chora
The most mystical of the Dodecanese islands (Saint John the Evangelist is said to have received the visions related in the book of Revelation) is still preserved from mass tourism. A chic bohemian population takes its quarters there every summer. The Byzantine village of Patmos Chora is one of the most beautiful in the Dodecanese
Saint John Monastery
Steps: Chora
The monastery of Saint John is classified as World heritage of Mankind. A visit is required before a small walk and a good restaurant.
Places of interest : MONASTÈRE DE SAINT-JEAN-LE-THÉOLOGIEN
Idleness
Take the time to immerse yourself with a slower lifestyle and to isolate you in paradise coves.
An attack on an islet
You can enjoy a day to take a trip to one of the islands around the island of Arki.
Lipsi
This tiny island visits Patmos in a day or more if affinity (count 35 minutes of transport). You eat well, you live in the rhythm of the premises and you can randonner it without difficulty.
Swimming in the program
Lipsi, in addition to beautiful strolls, is a nice opportunity to find a small quiet beach.
Towards Kalymnos
From Symi, take 2 hours to Pothia, the port of Kalymnos. This island is known to all Greeks like the sponge fisherman island and is a little less busy.
Idleness
Steps: Rhodes Ville
Kalymnos is an incentive to relax on its beautiful beaches.
Places of interest : PLAGES
Hiking and climbing
Kalymnos can be used to make beautiful strolls and climbing on its sharp walls and volcanic cavities.
Pserimos
One day excursion to Pserimos.
Towards Astipalaia
Take a small detour west and discover Astipalaia that is often considered an integral part of Cyclades by its architecture and lifestyle.
Astipalaia Chora
Steps: Rhodes Ville
One of the most beautiful villages in Du, where the high town narrows down the hill to the port (Pera Gialos). It is an amphitheatre of houses bursting with white that stands out on the blue bottom of the surrounding seas. You have to walk without a specific purpose in this veritable Byzantine city to grasp snapshots that will allow you to enter the closed world of Hora.
Places of interest : BOURGOS
Beach
Steps: Rhodes Ville
A council, the more you sink into the lost corners of the island, the more beautiful beaches are.
Places of interest : PLAGES
Towards Kos
Arrival in Kos and relax.
Fiesta, Fiesta, Fiesta
The most festive of the islands of Dodecanese, we take the time to live in Greek: siga, siga the day, feast in the evening in a beach bar or a box of Kos-city.
On the Traces traces
One of the most beautiful archaeological sites in the archipelago will not be neglected, including the visit of the school of medicine where Studied studied and taught Hippocrates.
Tilos
Time stops in this wild nature. Hiking in Tilos nature reserve and discovery of a slow way of life.
Towards Symi
Direction the small pearl of the Dodecanese and installation.
Hiking
You can hike at your own pace inland in surprisingly green landscapes lined with cypress trees, the island has 200 churches and monasteries, enough to justify some efforts
Beaches with great show
Steps: Rhodes Ville
No complex on one of Symi's beaches, at least photogenic.
Places of interest : PLAGES
Kastellorizo
Discovery of Kastellorizo the Ottoman, its rhythm of living and its exoticism.
Let's shut down!
Steps: Rhodes Ville
The islets around Kastellorizo offer beautiful beaches.
Places of interest : PLAGES
Karpathos
Discovery of the centuries-old traditions and way of life on the island that has best preserved them in the archipelago.
Hikes
Hiking in the wild lands of the Nord De.
