Profitis Ilias (Rhodes)

Profitis Ilias is formed of uplifted fault blocks themselves a product of the Hellenide orogeny which produced a stack of Alpine nappes of Mesozoic age.

Sudden topographic variations and land instabilities are due to a multitude of thrust faults.

Profitis Ilias is covered with forests of pines (Pinus brutia) and cypress (Cupressus sempervirens) and maquis shrubland.

Near the summit and 8 km from Eleousa are Hotel "Elaphos and Elaphina" and the Byzantine monastery named "Prophetes Elias".

This villa was the summer residence of General Cesare Maria De Vecchi, Italian Governor of Rhodes between 1936–1940.

The village was constructed with a Roman Catholic church (now Greek Orthodox) a school, shops, a Casa del Fascio (formerly with a tower), municipal services, medical facilities and a cinema.

Agios Nikolaos Foundoukli late Byzantine church dedicated to St Nicholas containing 15th century frescoes.