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A short Rhodes guide (I)

Rhodes is the largest island of the Dodecanese and the fourth largest in Greece. Covers an area of 1.398 square meters and a population of 112.447 of which 60.000 residents live in the city of Rodos and the rest in villages throughout the island. The island has 44 villages, the biggest is Archangelos. At almost 260 nautical miles away from the port of Piraeus has daily ferryboat connections with the mainland Greece. There are numerous flights every day connecting Rhodes with Athens, Thessaloniki, Heraklion in Crete and with some of the smaller neighboring islands. During the holiday season (usually April to October) there are plenty direct connections with the major European cities and a large number of charter flights.
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Kassos

Kassos (Kàssos, Κάσος) is a small rocky island, steeply raising from the Karpathian sea, at the southernmost part of the Dodecanese islands with a population of 1.088 inhabitants. It is 18 km long with a coast long about 55 km…

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Bad weather in Rhodes

Severe weather conditions have forced the authorities to shut down ferry services between the mainland and the islands. Winds in the country’s seas have reached speeds of up to 100 kilometres per hour. Rhodes was particularly hit by strong winds…

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Hotel & Ferry by Blue Star Ferries

During Philoxenia 2008, an the International Tourism Exhibition hosted by HELEXPO, Blue Star Ferries, a company serving with daily connections Rhodes and the major islands of the Dodecanese with the mainland Greece, presented their Hotel & Ferry program for the…

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