Saint Paul's Bay
Narrow, rock-walled cove beneath a clifftop acropolis, said to have sheltered a shipwrecked apostle.
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This guide to Saint Paul's Bay in Rhodes opens with a detail the official Ministry of Culture guide leaves out: the tradition that the apostle Paul's storm-battered ship sheltered in this narrow cove around 57 CE. It weighs that legend against the practical realities of ancient sailing, and the five real harbors thirty miles up the coast that a working captain would have had every reason to use instead. The small whitewashed chapel built over the water is still in use today for baptisms and weddings.
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