Kameiros

Kameiros (or Kameiros ) was next to Ialyssos (or Ialissos ) and Lindos one of the three cities of ancient Rhodes. From the city of an extensive excavation site has remained on the west coast of the island, which is a good example of an ancient ( Hellenistic ) City plant.

Around 1000 BC Kameiros was founded in the wake of the " Ionic migration " of Doric Greeks. In the city lived in the 6th century BC, the Ependichter Peisander. After an earthquake, the city that lost heavily after the founding of Rhodes Town in importance, built completely new and planned in the Hellenistic period was. 139 AD Kameiros then again destroyed by an earthquake, and apparently not rebuilt; Ceramic finds, however, show that the place was finally abandoned in the 4th century.

The city was not fortified. There are a Doric double anta temple, a courtyard with fountain, houses with peristyle, at the highest point a Hellenistic stoa with original double row of columns and the remains of a Doric colonnade Temple of Athena. In the living quarters clay pipes are still visible on the water supply.