Lying just south of the city is Rodini Park, a paradise of streams and paths winding between pine trees, oleander bushes, cypress trees and maple. Within the park is a small zoo whose inhabitants include the Rhodian Deer, a protected species only usually found in the mountains of the island.

The location of the park is one of particular historical interest, reputedly the site of the School of Rhetoric where many famous Greeks and Romans studied, including Julius Caesar, Cato the Younger, Cicero, Pompey, Brutus, Cassius and Mark Anthony.

Besides its natural beauty, the park contains the remains of an 3rd century necropolis with Doric-style tombs and the Tomb of Ptolemeus, carved from living rock