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from the 2nd- to 3rd-century- managed to retain some
3 " AD; and on the third level is traditional character, with
Asklepion the Doric Temple of Asklepios whitewashed houses and
from the 2nd century BC. attractive churches. The
⌂ 4 km (2 miles) NW highest village, Zía, has
of Kos town § 22420
28326 @ # May–Oct: 8am– become the epitome of a
8pm Tue–Fri, 8am–3pm 4 traditional Greek village, at
Sat–Mon & public hols; Nov– Tingkáki least to the organizers of
the many coach tours that
EXPERIENCE The Dodecanese important Hellenistic sites, The popular coastal resorts A paved road leads from the
Apr: 8am–3pm Tue–Sun
regularly descend upon it,
⌂ 12 km (7 miles) W
One of Greece’s most
especially towards sunset.
of Kos town @
Asklepion, via Ágios Dimítrios
Asklepion was a sanctuary,
of Tingkáki and neighbouring
and Asómatos, to Zía.
school and medical centre
combined. With its white
Marmári have long white sand
Alternatively, Lagoúdi, the
beaches and steady breezes
lowest village, is less commer-
marble terraces cut into a
pine-clad hill with spectacular
cialized and is home to the
ideal for wind surfing. The
unmissable hilltop church of
views, the site was chosen in
nearby Alykés Saltmarsh is
the 4th century BC to encour-
has a festival on 8 September.
numerous wetland species
age rest and recu peration and
here include small waders like
it still exudes an air of tran-
It is renowned for the frescoes
created by Nikos Vlahogiannis,
the avocet and the black-
quill ity. It was built in the 4th perfect for bird-watching. The Génnisis Theotókou, which
century BC after the death of winged stilt, with its long pink an iconographer, in the 1980s.
Hippocrates and was the most legs; flamingos are frequent The road continues from
famous of ancient Greece’s visitors, as well. Lagoúdi to Palaió Pylí.
300 asklepieia dedicated to
Asklepios, god of healing. The
doctors, priests of Asklepiados, 5 6
were practi tioners of famous
Hippocrates’s methods. and Asfendioú Villages Pylí
the cult’s symbol of the snake, ⌂ 14 km (9 miles) W ⌂ 15 km (9 miles) W
once used to seek healing of Kos town of Kos town @
herbs, is now the emblem of
modern Western medicine. The Asfendioú villages of Zía, The deserted Byzantine town
There are three levels: the Asómatos, Evangelístria, Ágios of Paleó Pylí is perched on a
first has a 3rd-century-BC Dimítrios and Lagoúdi are a crag 4 km (2 miles) above the
porch and 1st-century-AD cluster of picturesque hamlets farming village of Pylí, with
Roman baths; the second has on the craggy and wooded the remains of its castle walls
a 4th-century-BC Altar of slopes of Mount Díkeos. These built into the rock. Just below,
Apollo and Temple of Apollo mountain villages have all the 11th-century church of the

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