Elafos Hotel on Rhodes Island

We climbed higher and higher up the mountain and discovered this interesting hotel.

Hotel Elafos is situated on the edges of Profitis Ilias Mountain, next to the byzantine monastery of Profitis Ilias at an altitude of 780 meters and almost in the centre of the island.

During World War II, it was used as lodge for the Italian officers and later as military German hospital. In 1932, a new independent wing, named Elafina (female deer), was built next to Hotel Elafos, making the complex known as “Elafos-Elafina”. Now it runs as a hotel attracting visitors from all over the world, that wish to admire in close the buildings’ special identity.