6 Sights in Kos, Greece (with Map and Images)

Asclepius Kos is built on the slopes of a hill with lush vegetation and sea views and the Asia Minor coast. It is the most important archaeological monument on the island, but also one of the most famous asclepiea of antiquity. In ancient times it was a place of worship of the god Asclepius and a place of healing and teaching medicine. There he taught Hippocrates, one of the most important representatives of medicine in antiquity, in the school he had founded in the area of Asclepius. Unlike the sanctuary of Asclepius in Epidaurus, scientific medicine was particularly developed in Kos.

Wikipedia: Ασκληπιείο Κω (EL)

The Gazi Hasan Pasha Mosque referred to locally as the Loggia Mosque is a historical mosque of the Ottoman period in the town and island of Kos, in southeastern Greece. It is one of the two mosques of the island to bear the name "Gazi Hasan Pasha", the other being the mosque of Platani. Unlike the Platani mosque, the Loggia Mosque is not open for worship today. It is located right next to the legendary Tree of Hippocrates.

Wikipedia: Gazi Hasan Pasha Mosque, Loggia (EN)

The Roman House or Casa Romana is a Roman villa of Pompeian type of the end of the 2nd century and the beginning of the 3rd century AD, built on the ruins of a Hellenistic house with a wonderful sewerage system located in Kos. It consists of 36 rooms and 3 outdoor areas, patios or atria. The house has been restored.

Wikipedia: Ρωμαϊκή οικία Κω (EL)

The Tree of Hippocrates is the plane tree under which, according to legend, Hippocrates of Kos taught his pupils the art of medicine. Paul of Tarsus purportedly taught here as well. The Platanus in Kos is an oriental plane, with a crown diameter of about 12 metres, said to be the largest for a plane tree in Europe.

Wikipedia: Tree of Hippocrates (EN)

The Defterdar Ibrahim Pasha Mosque is an Ottoman-era mosque in the island of Kos, in Greece. Built in the 18th century, it serves the Muslim-Turkish community of Kos, as one of the two out of the five Ottoman mosques to be still operational and open for prayers on Kos, the other being the Gazi Hasan Pasha Mosque.

Wikipedia: Defterdar Mosque (Kos) (EN)

The two-storey building in Eleftheria Square, which houses the current archaeological museum of Kos, is a preserved monument of the Italian occupation (1912-1943), built in 1936, when the Director-General of the Dodecanese was Mario Lago

Wikipedia: Αρχαιολογικό Μουσείο Κω (EL), Website