Lindos

Sea Town Rhodes, Greece

Lindos (Greek: Lindos - Λίνδος) is a former municipality and archaeological site of Greece in the periphery of the Southern Aegean (peripheral unit of Rhodes) with 3,633 inhabitants according to 2001 census data. It is an ancient Greek city on the island of Rhodes referred to by Homer and flourished in the Doric era, becoming the main center of the island, part of the Doric hexapolis (from the 5th century BC of the Doric Pentapolis). Its inhabitants founded Gela in 688 BC. The ancient city was built on the site of the present one. Traces of the temple of Dionysus and the theater carved into the rock have been found. On the hill in front of the Acropolis there is a domed sepulchral monument, the so-called Sepulcher of Cleobulus dating back to 100 BC.