Kos is one of the islands GriecheDodecanese, which are convenient in the Aegean sea of 370 kilometers southeast of the mainland gate of Piraeus and straight five kilometers the south of Turkey. It is the second largest island in the Archipelago after Rhodes and can give his larger neighbour a run for its money, if it comes to tightening the routistic hordes. In the island has 290 kilometers of the coastal line with an abundance of the wonderful beaches - at most, which is suffocated with cheek through jowl sun colours July and August. It is an island of large. Complex one of the erholungsortes and frantic foam rubber-took part however it is also the place of birth of Hippocrates, the father of modern medicine and house to western first medical school the world. Stories and more archaeologybueffelleder enjoy in its Schatztrove fascinating the old places of assembly. The island is attached well with all other islands in the Dodecanese and with the Greek mainland. There are regular olympic airline flights to and from Athens and refer air connections with Great Britain and other European Bestimmungsoerter. Piraeus is 12-15 hours by ferry and Rhodes, the capital Dodecanese of 92 kilometers southeast of Kos, is 3.5 hours. Regular ones hydrofoils and Katamaran attach the island with the other hauptinseln in the group and with Fourni in northeast Aegean. Very large number of international visitors - mostly Brits and Skandinavier - rise on the island in the summer months, in the hell of the considerable majority, which are bent on serious sunning on the beaches until day and in the serious Partying off, after the sun goes down. The recognizing tourist digs more deeply to find over an island impregnated in history, in a country of the locks and in the handles of the antiquity, a place, in which traditional adhere more unspoiltdoerfer craggy to the upward gradients of the Kiefer plated mountains. View strongly enough and are even in the situation to find evenly a calm point of the beach on the height of the season. Kos tightened Siedleren for more than 5,000 years, but it was really Hippocrates, that the island on the diagram of the old world in 5. Century set, which was carried for BC. on the island in 460 BC Hippocrates, preceded with a scientific approximation to the medicine, which was based on the faith, which would know different diseases by training, training and experience doctors couriers. Its faith was a main departure from the preceding black magic and Witchcraftannaeherung to the ill health. After its death in 370 a BC already area, the Asclepius, the God of the Heilends and a medical school inaugurated were established, on the island and perpetuated the instruction of Hippocrates, which formed Kos famous in old Greece. The Schongebietremains the star visitor attraction of the island and the doctors 21. Century still come, the Hippocratic oath to schw50ren. The island has another rather mundane requirement to the fame - it is the house of the koskopfsalates, which is more rueber a trusted friend sight on supermarkets the world.
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