Lindos
Lindos is a medieval village on the Greek island of Rhodes. It has only seven hundred inhabitants, greatly outnumbered by tourists in the high season. Being one of the main attractions on the island it is often overcrowded in the mornings when the tourist coaches arrive.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Photo: Bgag, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Town with 810 residents
- Description: modern village on the island of Rhodes, Greece
- Also known as: “Líndhos”
- Postal code: 85107
Places of Interest
Highlights include Lindos Acropolis and Church of the Assumption.
Temple of Athena Lindia
Ruins
The Temple of Athena Lindia was a sanctuary in Lindos in Rhodes, dedicated to the goddess Athena. It was a significant Pan-Hellenic shrine of Athena and arguably the regional center of her cult.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Pefkos and Lardos.
Pefkos
Village
Pefkos or Pefki, Greek: Πεύκος, is a well-known beach resort located on eastern coast of Rhodes, just 4 kilometres southwest of Lindos, and 43 kilometres from the capital city Rhodes. Pefkos is situated 4 km southwest of Lindos.
Lardos
Village
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Lardos is a village on the Lardos stream, also called Fonias, located in the eastern part of the island of Rhodes, in the South Aegean region of Greece. Lardos is situated 6 km west of Lindos.
Lindos
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Rhodes, Dodecanese, South Aegean Islands, Greek Islands, Greece, Balkans, Europe
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Latitude
36.0916° or 36° 5′ 30″ northLongitude
28.0855° or 28° 5′ 8″ eastPopulation
810Elevation
48 metres (157 feet)United Nations Location Code
GR LDROpen location code
8G8C33RP+J5OpenStreetMap ID
node 259064790OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Lindos” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “ليندوس”
- Asturian: “Lindos”
- Catalan: “Lindos”
- Cebuano: “Líndos”
- Chinese: “林佐斯”
- Chinese: “林多斯”
- Chinese: “林都斯”
- Czech: “Lindos”
- Danish: “Lindos”
- Dutch: “Lindos”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ليندوس”
- Finnish: “Lindos”
- Finnish: “Líndos”
- French: “Lindos”
- French: “Líndos”
- German: “Lindos”
- Greek: “Λίνδος”
- Hebrew: “לינדוס”
- Hungarian: “Lindosz”
- Irish: “Lindos”
- Italian: “Lindo”
- Italian: “Lindos”
- Japanese: “リンドス”
- Korean: “린도스”
- Latin: “Lindus”
- Macedonian: “Линдос”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Lindos”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Líndos”
- Norwegian: “Lindos”
- Persian: “لیندوس”
- Polish: “Lindos”
- Portuguese: “Lindos”
- Romanian: “Lindos”
- Russian: “Линдос”
- Serbian: “Линдос”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Lindos”
- Slovak: “Lindos”
- Spanish: “Lindos”
- Swedish: “Lindos”
- Turkish: “Lindos”
- Turkish: “Lindoz”
- Ukrainian: “Ліндос”
- Welsh: “Lindos”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Lindos”. Photo: Bgag, CC BY-SA 3.0.