Melenos Art Boutique Hotel

Lavish yet genteel, this Rhodes luxury boutique hotel below the Lindos Acropolis, is made of locally-quarried sandstone and furnishes sweeping panoramas of the beach and coastline below.

Rooms are laden with time-warp detail: carved façades, hand-painted ceilings, cedar woodwork and pebble mosaic floors, all adapted from 17th-century Lindos mansion motifs.

Even the common terraces have a village feel, as mulberry trees, lavender and vines intermingle with bougainvilleas and jasmine creepers.