On this page visitors will find a full list of all tourist sights on the Island of Kos in Greece. Kos is famous for its ancient Greek ruins, its fortresses, historic buildings, museums etc. We have selected the most important tourist sights of Kos so that you can spend less time planning your visit and more time enjoying what Kos has to offer.
In the center of the Kos Town, there is a very old plane tree underneath which as the legend goes Hippocrates, the famous physician and the father of modern medicine, used to teach his students. Yet, according to another legend, Paul the Apostle, used to teach his students underneath the very same tree.
Odeums used to be comparatively small theatres in the ancient Greece and Rome in which orators and musicians regularly performed. The Odeum in the Town of Kos was constructed in the 2nd century AD its size was 30x32m and it was 12 meters high. In the ancient times it could host 750 spectators. The Odeum in Kos was discovered by the Italian archeologist Laurenzi in 1929, during the Italian occupation of the island.
