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Hippocrates Plane Tree

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contemplative, historical, charming

A local would say...

Hippocrates allegedly taught medicine under this tree — it's 2,500 years old and still teaching silence.

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.