The town has approximately 3,000 inhabitants in the winter and around 30,000 during the summer season, making it, despite everything, less crowded and chaotic than the other tourist resorts of the Gargano.
Rodi Garganico is famous throughout the area for its production of citrus fruits, so much so that it has been nicknamed the Garden of Gargano: these fruits, in addition to their scent and excellent flavour, combine to create a unique panorama together with the crystalline sea and the sandy coast, the silvery olive trees, the fragrant white orange blossoms, the green pines with the scent of resin and the characteristic overhangs of the entire Gargano coast.
Rodi has very remote origins, dating back to around 1200 BC. The country was first a Cretan colony, then a Greek and Rhodian one. After various vicissitudes in the late Roman era, it was sacked by the Venetians to punish it for its loyalty to Frederick II and in the 15th century Ferdinand of Aragon decided to settle there.
The medieval walls of the village still surround the historic centre, a of the most intact and best preserved in the Gargano.
In this context, the numerous carved stone portals scattered throughout the ancient centre, the characteristic chimneys on the roofs, the Vùcc'l district (whose name derives from ' vucculare' which means the shouting of women to call their husbands intent on working on the nets), with its steep streets and stairways leading to the sea, and the village identified as Sott u' casted (under the castle), which preserves the remains of the fortifications of the old castle; from this very long terrace overlooking the Murge (as the particular stacks that rise from the sea are called, one of these in the shape of a crouching dog), you can admire the enchanting spectacle of the sun in its rising and dying in the sea and the Tremiti Islands, when there is no haze. On the arch that connects the castle to Piazza Rovelli - known as the Sunset Arch - there is the characteristic inscription from 1600 which mentions Girolamo Onero Cavaniglia, an important feudal lord of Rhodes.

All these areas are easily accessible thanks to the position central location of the hotel in Rodi Garganico Villa Americana, in the heart of the town.

Another suggestive corner is represented by Piazza Belvedere, overlooked by some rooms of the hotel itself, in the center of which stands the large pine tree of Rhodes (for this reason called Sott u ped a' zappin, i.e. "under the pine") and which owes its name to the magnificent view that ranges from the whitewashed Capuchin Convent, among the green olive groves, to the tourist port of the town, with its fragrant orange groves to the golden beach and the Gargano coast which extends to Peschici. Certainly worthy of note are the Church of San Pietro with statues from the 1500s, the Byzantine bell tower of the church of San Nicola di Mira and the Sanctuary of the Madonna della Libera, from the Romanesque period.

Infine, Rodi Garganico è infatti dotata di una lunga distesa di spiaggia sabbiosa, che si divide per versante, da qui i nomi delle due “spiagge” di Levante e di Ponente.
Entrambe le spiagge sono costituite da sabbia finissima, e, insieme al fondale del mare che degrada lentamente, le rendono ideali e sicure per i bambini e i loro genitori.
La spiaggia di Levante si estende dal Porto turistico fino a San Menaio, frazione balneare di Vico del Gargano sita a circa 5 Km a est da Rodi Garganico.
è su questo versante che sorge il nostro Lido Malibù, dotato di ombrelloni, sdraio, bar, attrezzature sportive e di un apprezzatissimo ristorante sul mare.
Soggiornando all’Hotel Rodi Garganico “Villa Americana” potrete raggiungere la spiaggia grazie al servizio navetta messo a disposizione dei nostri ospiti.
La spiaggia di Ponente, invece, si estende lungo il versante Ovest e, partendo dalla località nota come “Sotto la Costa”, arriva fino a Lido del Sole, frazione turistica di Rodi Garganico.