Paradeisi

Paradisi is a village on the northern coast of the island of Rhodes, Greece.

First inhabitants were in the period of the Saint John Knights occupation of the island as the magister Villeneuve made a castle for the protection of the pirate raids for the northeastern part of the island of Rhodes. People started building around the castle.

Later, Arab inhabitants brought exotic flowers and planted them along the village mountain making it look as paradise , hence the name Paradisi.

After the Italian occupation they renamed the village to Villanova only to be changed again to Paradisi after the final reunitement with Greece.