Hippocrates Plane Tree

The lovely cobblestone Plateia Platanou in Kos Town, where a magnificent plane tree under which Hippocrates is said to have taught his pupils has stood for centuries. Beneath it is an old sarcophagus converted by the Turks into a fountain. The adjacent 18th-century Mosque of Gazi Hassan Pasha and the Castle of the Knights form an extraordinary layered historical square.

Added by Dimitra Karagiannis