Two large squares have been laid out occupying the entire area up to the west coast. One of them, Eleftherias Square, extends along the harbour. At the east end of the square the architect Florestano di Fausto built a Renaissance – type building which is now the Bank of Greece. He went on to convert an already existing recreation center into the modern ‘Aktaion’, which is of mixed style; further west he built the complex of the Low courts and Port Authority, and gave the Post Office a new Renaissance – type facade.

Further north is King George II Square, which is flanked on the north by the Cathedral (Evangelismos), the Archbishops Residence and the Government House, on the south by the Town Hall, on the east by an administrative building, while the building of the National Theatre rises prominently on the west side.

The Government House, now the Prefecture Offices, is an impressive structure built by di Fausto himself during the early Italian occupation and is a reworking of the palace of the Doges in Venice, which chimes harmoniously with the building of the Archbishops Residence and the cathedral church of Evangelismos. This church, is a remodeling of the church of St. John built by the Knights, which stood opposite the Palace of the Grand Master. It is work of the architect Pietro Lojacono.

In a distance, opposite and to the west of the National Theatre, is the Moslem cemetery, which contains the tomb, the retreat and the small mosque of an Ottoman Officer, Murad Reis. Around it are preserved a large number of monumental tombs and sarcophagi of distinguished Moslems of the 17th and 18th c. who died in exile on Rhodes.

To the north-west, parallel to the coast, is a building block with its own park and a private beach in which the Italians built a large Rhodes Hotel which was very luxurious for its time and was in an Arab style in its first phase, only receiving its present form later.