Rhodes is an outstanding island in the East of Mediterranean the largest one of Dodecanesus, an island rich in its beauty and famous for its history. Four large historic towns still testify its ancient glory with their ruins. Ialysos, Camirus, Lindos, Rhodes itself where buildings dating back to the Byzantium and the middle ages link that distant age of prosperity in the life of today. Philosophers, mathematicians, athletes, poets and sculptors, already well-known in the age of Homer, lived in this flowery island.