Plaka Beach - Ladiko
Rocky cove of turquoise water and pine-covered cliffs, named for the Hollywood star it captivated.
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This guide to Plaka Beach in Rhodes asks what it takes for a movie star to get an entire bay named after him, starting with a 1960 Hollywood shoot for The Guns of Navarone that brought actor Anthony Quinn to a quiet pebble cove then called Vagies. You'll hear the competing accounts of how Quinn came to claim the shoreline, and why locals stopped using the old name. It's a guide best heard with an eye on the sharp rocks underfoot, where regulars still wear shoes to wade in.
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