travel42 Port Guide: Kos

travel42 Professional Cruise Port of Call Review

Kos Town, the capital city of Kos Island, serves well as a base for exploring the island's sights. Be sure to visit the fairly well-preserved Asklepeion Sanctuary, 4 mi/6 km west of Kos Town. The guide may tell you Hippocrates practiced there, but it was built in 357 BC, 20 years after he died. Plan an hour to tour the site. Also see the Casa Romana (mosaics), temples of Aphrodite and Dionysus, and the Palace of the Knights of Rhodes, an impressive medieval structure with double walls and a moat...