Kos - Aesculapium Asklepieion
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Four km/2.5mi southwest of the town of Kos, magnificently situated 100m/330ft above the sea, is the Asklepieion, the sanctuary of Asklepios (Aesculapius), famed for its medical school. Laid out on three terraces, it was built in the early third century B.C. on the site of an earlier (fifth C.) temple of Apollo. On the lowest terrace, to the north, is a rectangular precinct some 90m/300ft long by 45m/150ft across surrounded on three sides by Doric colonnades, to the rear of which were a series of rooms. On the north side, to the left of the entrance, can be seen the remains of three houses of the Roman or late Hellenistic period. At the northeast corner of the precinct a bath- house was later inserted, subsequently converted into the church of the Panayía tou Alsoús. Adjoining this is a small museum. Along the south side of the terrace is the retaining wall of the next terrace. To the left, between the second and third buttresses, is the sacred spring.
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Ancient ruins at Asklepion.
