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LOCATION AND AREA INFORMATION
- PRIMARY PROPERTY LOCATION CITY
- PRIMARY AIRPORT CODE KGS
- DISTANCE FROM PROPERTY 16 MI / 25.0 KM
- DIR FROM AIRPORT TO PROP N
- PRIMARY CITY CODE KGS
- DISTANCE TO CITY CENTER 0 MI / 0.0 KM
- DIRECTION FROM CITY CENTER N
DISTRICT
- DOWNTOWN
ADDITIONAL AIRPORTS
NAME DISTANCE DIR
- KGS 16 MI / 25.0 KM N
ADDITIONAL REFERENCE POINTS
NAME DISTANCE DIR
- ARCHAEOLOGICAL MUSEUM 0 MI / 0.8 KM N
- BEACH 3 MI / 5.0 KM N
- KNIGHTS CASTLE 0 MI / 0.5 KM S
- KOS 0 MI / 0.0 KM N
- PORT 0 MI / 0.5 KM S
ADDITIONAL PROPERTY LOCATION TEXT
- THE TOWN OF KOS WAS FOUNDED IN 366 BC, IN THE SAME
AREA WHERE MODERN KOS NOWADAYS IS TO BE FOUND. IT
CLIMAXED DURING THE HELLENISTIC & ROMAN PERIODS,
BEING A CROSSROAD BETWEEN CIVILISATIONS, BETWEEN
EAST & WEST, THE MEETING POINT FOR BOTH CULTURE &
TRADE. ALL AROUND KOS TOWN YOU CAN FIND SIGNS OF
THE PAST, REMINDERS OF THE CIVILISATIONS THAT
PASSED THROUGH ITS HARBOUR. NUMEROUS BUILDINGS,
BUILT IN IMITATION OF THE ITALIAN ARCHITECTURE OF
THE COLONIES IN N. AFRICA, MOST TYPICAL BEING THE
COUNTRY HALL. IN ORDER TO TAKE A TASTE OF THE
ANTIQUITY WONDERS THAT KOS HAS TO OFFER, MAKE A
STOP AT THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL MUSEUM, LOCATED AT
ELEFTHERIAS SQUARE, EXHIBITING A WIDE COLLECTION
OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL TREASURES, SUCH AS THE MOSAIC OF
HIPPOCRATES, THE HELLENISTIC SCULPTURES OF
APHRODITE, EROS & ONE BELIEVED TO BE OF
HIPPOCRATES HIMSELF.
