Acropolis of Rodos and the Acient Stadium.

The hill overlooking the modem new town and Mediaeval town is the site of the ancient Hellenistic town of Rodos and the Acropolis of Rodos. In antiquity the population of the city was many times larger than that of today and extended over the eastern slopes of Agios Stephanos (latterly known as Monte Smith after the English admiral Sir Sidney Smith who established an observation post in 1802 to watch over the movements of the Napoleonic fleet in 1802) right down to the harbour. On the Acropolis are the remains of the Temples of Zeus and Athena and the partly-restored Temple of Apollo, then, as now, a landmark for ships at sea.
Below is the heavily-restored Stadium which is still used for occasional performances of classical tragedies. Visit at sunset to watch the spectacular sunset.

Acropolis of Lindos.

This rock, which rises to 116 m. forms the finishing touch to the landscape of Lindos, standing dry and imposing in its bareness and surrounded on all sides by the sea, so that Lindos may rejoice in the ocean in the words of a Hellenistic epigram. Lindos does not seem to have been particularly important in the earlier periods, though sporadic finds of the Neolithic period and the Bronze Age have been discovered on the acropolis.

According to legend, the foundation of the sanctuary of Athena Lindia goes back to the Mycenaean period, and Mycenaean finds have been yielded by cemeteries in the broader area of Lindos. The Archaic period (7th-6th c BC) was a golden age for Lindos, which played a leading role in the Greek colonisation movement, its most important foundation being Gela in Sicily. The 6th c BC was dominated by the figure of a moderate tyrant, Kleoboulos who ruled Lindos for many years, and was Included amongst the seven sages of the ancient world.

During his rule, the Archaic temple of Athena was built on the site of an earlier structure, and the acropolis received its first monumental form. The Persian advance and later the merger of the three old cities into the new city of Rodos (408 BC) led to a diminution in the importance of Lindos as a political and economic power.

It nevertheless continue to be an important centre, focused on the famous sanctuary of Athena, which received its final monumental form in the Hellenistic period and became the leading sanctuary on the island. The acropolis was used as a fortress in antiquity, as well as In Byzantine times, in the period of the Knights of St. John, and in that of Ottoman rule.

Ialysos and the mount Filerimos

Ialysos is one of the three ancient cities of Rodos with remains of occupation dating back to 3rd millennium BC and also settlements & cemeteries dating from the Mycenaean-Minoan period.
The building remains of ancient Ialysos discovered to date are mainly on the Filerimo hill , which was given this name in Byzantine times. Its earliest known name was Achaia, which is further evidence for the presence of Greeks in this area during the Mycenaean period, Strabo calls the hill Ochyroma ("Fortification").

Acient Kamiros

Homer describes it as "arginoeis", a reference to its fertile, argillaceous soil. The earliest traces of occupation in the broader area of Kamiros, the Kamiros, go back to Mycenaean times, as is demonstrated by the cemetery discovered at the village of Kalavarda. Geometric and Archaic Kamiros are known manly from cemeteries, located around the ancient city. The cemetery at Makry Langoni has yielded the stele of Krito and Timarista, a famous piece of Classical sculpture, now on display in the Rodos Museum.

In the area of the archaeological site that is open to visitors are preserved the ruins of the Hellenistic city of Kamiros, which was rebuilt after a devastating earthquake in 226 BC. There had been a settlement on this same site from as early as the Archaic period. The city is a characteristic example of Hellenistic urban layout and desing, with its division into zones of pubic and private buildings, its arrangement around the natural slopes of the hill, and its chess-board system of streets, Kamiros was divided into three unequal parts: the lowest level which ch formed a kind of agora, with a religious character, a zone with private dwellings on the side of the hill, the acropolis on the summit. At the north-west edge of the Agora Square stand the restored columns of a Doric temple, with two columns in antis, which dates from the late 3rd-early 2nd c. BC. It was possibly dedicated to the god Apollo.