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7 Most Instagrammable Spots in Lindos, Rhodes's Whitewashed Clifftop Village
Lindos, on the Greek island of Rhodes, stacks a whitewashed village, a working harbour and a 2,500-year-old acropolis onto one small headland, all of it protected from cars and new construction alike.
Sep 25, 2026 · BigTravel.in
Lindos sits on Rhodes's east coast, a village of flat-roofed, whitewashed houses built into the slope below an acropolis that has been in continuous use since antiquity. Cars are banned from the old village itself, and strict conservation rules have kept new building to a minimum, which is a large part of why so little of the view here has changed in decades. Here are seven spots worth the climb.
1. The Acropolis of Lindos
The clifftop acropolis combines a fourth-century-BC Temple of Athena Lindia with a medieval castle built over it by the Knights of St John, two very different structures stacked on the same rock, and the views back down over the village and bay from the top are the reason most people make the climb.
2. The village's whitewashed lanes
Below the acropolis, Lindos's narrow lanes are lined with flat-roofed captains' houses, many with pebble-mosaic courtyards known as chochlakia, laid out in geometric patterns that are as photographed at ground level as the acropolis is from above.
3. St Paul's Bay
A near-circular bay just south of the village, Agios Pavlos, is traditionally said to be where the Apostle Paul landed on Rhodes; the enclosed shape of the bay, ringed by low cliffs, makes it a distinctly different frame from the open beach on the village's other side.
4. Lindos main beach
The village's main crescent of sand curves round below the old town, with the acropolis rising directly behind it, giving a shot that takes in beach, whitewashed houses and ancient citadel in a single frame.
5. The acropolis's medieval gate and walls
The Knights of St John built fortified walls and a gatehouse over part of the ancient site in the fourteenth century, and the contrast between the rough medieval stonework and the classical columns behind it is one of the more striking close-up details on the climb up.
6. The path up from the village
The walk, or donkey ride, up from the village to the acropolis climbs a stepped path lined with vendors and framed by the bay below; it is one of the few spots that captures the full scale of the climb rather than just the view at the top.
7. The harbour at dusk
As the day-trip boats clear out in the late afternoon, the small harbour below the village settles into a quieter scene, the acropolis catching the last light above the rooftops, which is when many of the village's most-shared sunset shots are taken.
Traveller tips
- The climb to the acropolis is steep and largely unshaded; donkeys are traditionally available for hire, though the practice has drawn periodic animal-welfare criticism and is worth researching before booking.
- Lindos gets very busy with day-trip coach and boat tours around midday; early morning or the last hour before closing is noticeably quieter.
- Private cars cannot enter the old village; park on the outskirts and walk in.
- Lindos is roughly 50km from Rhodes Town by road, with no rail link on the island; buses and hire cars are the usual options.
Where this is
Lindos, Rhodes, Greece