A group of French tourists refused to pay the €6 entry fee to an archaeological site in Lindos, Rhodes.
The tourists sparked anger when they refused to pay to enter the Lindos archaeological site because they said, as taxpayers, they were already paying to bail out Greece.
The group said they objected to 'paying Greece twice' to visit the ruins of Lindos, but security guards refused to let them enter the site and the group had to leave.
As the Press Reader reports:
“An official in Lindos told the French media: We are frankly quite offended at their refusal to pay. They said they had already paid our country once, so had the right to enter where they liked. This is an ancient site, and the entrance fee is used to keep it preserved for today's visitors and we hope for a long time to come”.
The archaeological site of Lindos is a natural citadel, about 50 km south of the town of Rhodes, which was fortified successively by the Greeks, the Romans, the Byzantines, the Knights of St John and the Ottomans. The construction of the Acropolis is dated at 1100 B.C.
With 600,000 visitors annually, Lindos competes with Delphi as the second most visited archaeological site in Greece.