Hotel Olympos is located in the heart of the medieval town of Rhodes inGreece. Visit the pedestrian old town and live history of the knights of St John.

Your hotel accommodation in in the heart of the medieval sights,Fanouriou street.


Medieval city of Rhodes

The Medieval Town. The visitor should not be misled by the term “Medieval Town” into thinking that what he will see is a ruined and deserted city, such as Mystras in the Southern Peloponnese.

The Old Town of Rhodes is a bustling neighborhood of some 6,000 people, who live and work in the same buildings in which the Knights of St. John lived six centuries ago; as a living monument to the past it must be nearly unique in Europe, if not the world.
Even the visitor whose stay in Rhodes is for no more than a few hours should not neglect to walk around it.

The Old Town continues today to be divided into the two parts which made it up in the time of the Knights: the northern part, which was the internal fortress of the Knights, known as the Castello, and which contained the official buildings; and the larger southern part, called the Chora, where the Greeks, the Europeans who were not members of the Order and the Jews lived.
These two parts of the town were separated by a wall running approximately parallel to the line of Sokratous street, the old Bazaar.