Agia Agathi Beach (Golden Sand)

This guide to Agia Agathi Beach in Rhodes turns on a Roman governor's demand: around the middle of the third century in Sicily, prefect Quintianus sent for a young Christian woman named Agatha and would not accept her refusal. You'll hear how her story reached this cove and gave it its name, and what the cave chapel at the far end still holds, from faded saints under layered graffiti to a Byzantine double-headed eagle cut into the stone above it. It's a walk down the beach toward that whitewashed door and iron bell.