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Information about Symi Simi, called Sime in antiquity, is a Greek island of the Aegean Sea in the Dodecanese archipelago, located 41 km north of the coast of the island of Rhodes, surface of 58.1 km². It is located near the Turkish coasts of the Re?adiye peninsula in the Mu?la Province. From an administrative point of view, it is a municipality on the outskirts of the Southern Aegean (peripheral unit of Rhodes). The island has over three hundred monasteries and churches. The most important Churches are: Prophet Elias, St. John of Tsagkrias, St. Procopius, Madonna Myrtariotissa, Roukouniotis, Santa Marina and the Holy Monastery of Panormitis. Worth noting is the Kokkimidi Abbey, a Byzantine monastery renovated in 1697, the Perivioti Abbey and the War Cross Monastery.