Limni Apolakkias
Irrigation reservoir turned wetland, with a chapel that submerges each winter as the water rises.
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This guide to Limni Apolakkias, a reservoir on southern Rhodes, opens with a small chapel built to be submerged every winter as the water rises, and traces why farmers in this dry corner of the island dammed the Stanitis stream in the late 1980s. You'll hear how the resulting lake turned into a wetland for herons and reed warblers. Look toward the far bank for the stone monastery of Ai Giorgis o Vardas, raised in 1289.
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