PLACES IN KOS
The ruins of the ancient city with the Hellenic and Roman remains near by the harbor. In the same area, there are parts of the Ancient Agora (4th - 3rd c. b. C.), the Grand Sea (Arcade).
KAMARA TOU FOROU: and some other smaller arcades with sanctuaries consecrated to Dionysus, Aphrodite and Hercules .. At the inner city, the Odeon (3rd cent. A.D.), well conserved with 12 tears of seats and arched arcades, the Roman House (Casa Romana), rebuilt patrician vi[la with marvelous mosaics. Also, the Xysto - part of the Gymnasium - 2nd c. B.C. with sixteen restored columns from its original seventy, who totally consisted the gymnasium, the two buildings who covered the Hel[enic and roman baths and a part of a roman marbled street, with mosaics and inlaid works.
THE ARCHEOLOGICAL MUSEUM: In Eleftherias Square, the museum
contains a collection of pre-historic findings, c1assica[ and Hel[enistic small
sculptures of Aphrodite, Eros, Demetra and Hippocrates, epigraphs, mosaics
with images and architectural marbled parts of temples and buildings.
THE CASTLE OF THE KNIGHTS: Built at the right side of the harbor, the city's
main monument of the Venetian times, maintained in very good condition
constitutes a c1assica[ sample of commanding defensive architecture of its time.
The fortress has two enceintes and a moat. It was built in the 15th century, but
completed at the 16th century.
HIPPOCRATES PLANE TREE: A gigantic tree with a trunk 12 meters in diameter. Tradition insists that the tree was planted by Hippocrates about 2400
years ago, and that under its shade he taught medicine to his pupils. A bridge
connect from the point where the Plane tree is to the Castle of the Knights.
THE ASKLEPIEION OF KOS: The most spectacular monument of Kos,founded in the 4th century b.C. lies at a distance of 4 km from the city, inside a
grove of cypresses, the greatest health institution of the Ancien Greece. From
the Ask[epios Temple only the foundations and some columns remain, while
some columns have also remained from the Stoa (Arcade) where it is believed
that sheltered the Medical School of Hippocrates. Near by, there were at the
ancient times thermal baths with running healing waters.
THE CITY OF KOS
The city impresses immediately the visitor with its large asphalt-paved
streets, "throttled" into the greenery, rich in alleys of palm trees and a well
made urban project. With many archeological sites around the city at the
metropolitan area, but mainly with its flat roads, Kos is ideal for walking and
riding with bicycle that is why Kos is considered as the "city of bicycles".
It is possible to find. a great variety of articles in modern shops, tourist
shops, bars, coffee-shops and restaurants. A great number of hotels and
studios are inside and out of the town. Banks, Post Office, OTE. (the
Te[ecommunication Company), and public services are inside the city.
The Harbor of the city is peculiar and picturesque, with its many excursionboats,
yachts and traditional fishing-boats.
At a small distance from the city, north-southern of the area of Lambis and
south-eastern in the area of Psa[idi, there are organized beaches with
umbrellas and other facilities such as sea-sports. It is at the area of Psa[idi
that you can find the only camping of the island.
REST OF THE ISLAND
It is really worth to tour the island from any point the visitor stays, since it
reserves many great surprises for the originalities who present
morphological, climatic and topographical in its different points.
Kos disposes many interesting places to visit, so different between them,
thus to cover sufficiently all the needs of the visitors. Cosmopolitan
beaches, fishing villages, natural ports, picturesque heights with small
housing-area. Kos may be toured with organized groups, or by public
buses, rented cars or motorcycles, even by bicycle for small distances.
