MONUMENTS

The island of Kos, in Greece, seems to have been populated since Neolithic Times as proven by  bones and pottery dating back to that time that have been found in the Aspri Petra cave in Kefalos. Throughout the ages a number of conquerors have taken over the island and most of them have left their mark. The remains from the ancient Greek and Roman times are plentiful. The Aclepeion, Alasarna, Palatia, the Roman Odeon... just to name a few. During the Byzantine era, the area around Old Pyli thrived and grew, leaving us the wonderful Old Pyli settlement and a number of churches with exquisite frescoes adorning their walls. The Knights of St John's set out to build a number of castles,  all over the island, seeking to protect the population as well as themselves from the Ottoman Empire, and raiders of all sorts. But as their strength waned, the island fell into the hands of the Ottoman Empire and soon a number of shrines and Mosques were built mostly in Kos Town. Last but not least the Italian legacy is probably the most important of them all. The Italians uncovered and highlighted most of the antiquities we see today in an effort to commemorate the glorious past, they organised and built a large part of the island's infrastructure including roads, schools, sewers, bomb shelters..., and left their typical architectural style on a vast number of buildings they built following the 1933 earthquake. The archaeological sites are plentiful and widespread across the whole island. Kos Town itself is in fact a vast archaeological area.
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• Kos Town Area

• Ancient Greek and Roman
1. Dionyssos' Altar
2. The Plane Tree of Hippocrates
3. Roman Odeon
4. The Asclipeion
5. The Kos Archaeological Museum
6. The Western Archeological Area
7. The Casa Romana
• Medieval and Byzantine Era
1. Neratzia Castle
• Turkish Era
1. The Nefterdar Mosque
2. The Haggi Hassan Mosque
3. The Eski Mosque
4. The Morouk Mosque
5. The Atic Mosque
6. The Hatzi Passa Mausoleum
• Italian Era
1. Italian architecture of the 1930s
• Other
1. The Kos Old Town
2. The Kos Town Market
3. Hippocratic Altis and the Hippocratic Foundation
4. The Ambavris Acqueduct
5. The watermills on the Zeioula river

• Dikaios Area

• Ancient Greek and Roman
1. Mycenian grave at Aghios Ioannis Hostos
2. The Roman Acqueduct
3. Harmilos' Grave
4. The Atsigana Baths
5. The Vourina Spring
• Medieval and Byzantine Era
1. The Old Pyli settlement
2. The Old Pyli fortress
3. The Voukolies Medieval Farmhouse
• Turkish Era
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• Italian Era
1. The Italian Acqueduct
2. The italian Pump
• Other
1. The Pyli Spring
2. Of limekilns in the Old Pyli area
3. The Asfendiou traditional oil mills
4. Coal mines in the Miniera area
5. Watermill next to Aghios Theologos
6. The Triantafyllopoulos Winery
7. The Hatziemmanouil Winery

• Kefalos

• Ancient Greek and Roman
1. The Palatia Theater
2. Aghios Stephanos under the moonlight
3. The Kamari Baths
• Medieval and Byzantine Era
1. The Kefalos Castle
2. Kastelli Castle
3. Kastelli revisited
4. Vriokastro
• Turkish Era

• Italian Era
• Other
1. The Aspri Petra Cave
2. The Quarry on Mount Zini
3. The loading crane on Cape Routhianos
4. The Kalamos Watermill
5. The Gournia Spring

• Kardamaina

• Ancient Greek and Roman
1. Alasarna
• Medieval and Byzantine Era
• Turkish Era
• Italian Era
• Other

• Antimachia

• Ancient Greek and Roman
• Medieval and Byzantine Era
1. The Castle of Antimachia
2. Views of the Antimachia castle while hiking up from Kardamaina
3. The Antimachia Castle under the moonlight
• Turkish Era
• Italian Era
1. The Italian bomb shelter complex - refugios
2. The smaller Antimachia refugios
• Other
1. Windmill on the main road
2. The Fotis Spring
3. The Antimachia Windmill
4. The Kimari Spring
5. The Hatzoglou Spring
6. The Kipia Spring
7. The Hardamou spring
8. The Poria Spring