Kos - Blue Guide Chapter

Kos has a wide and spacious feel: long beaches, clear mountains, open plateaux, and, beyond them all, bright and sweeping views in all directions. Famed from antiquity through to modern times for its gentle fertility and its gardens its healthy climate was immortalised by the school of Hippocrates.


This is a chapter from Blue Guide Greece the Aegean Islands: what to see, where to stay and eat, history, archaeology, art, culture, leisure. With superb, award-winning maps. Written and edited by a team of three experts: historian, art historian and archaeologist, two of whom lead cultural tours in Greece. "Blue Guides still hold the cultural high ground" Sunday Times.