Kosta Palace City Hotel

The picturesque medieval fortress across from the hotel along with the wooden schooners, is complimented by the magical quaint old town just a stone’s throw away, with its beautiful cafes and tavernas.

Archaeological sites, beaches with crystal clear waters and refreshing beach bars are close-by and easily accessible by using a bike or just taking a walk.

About Kos island

Kos is situated in the southeastern Aegean Sea, in the middle of the Dodecanese Island cluster, with easy access to the nearby islands that are quite interesting to see.

With a warm Mediterranean climate, Kos combines history and tradition with modern infrastructure. She features 112km of coastline, innumerous historical sites, immaculate hospitality facilities, rich flora and crystal-clear waters with 12 Blue Flag beaches, local produce of high nutritional value and gastronomy based on the island tradition. All the above attracts well over a million visitors annually.

Kos, that is widely known as the “cycling island”, offers over 15km of bike lanes, 6500 bicycles available for rent and lots of mountainous trails and routes for all levels of efficiency. Cycling is quite popular among the locals and the visitors to the island as well. Today the island of kos has wonderful routes for all types of cyclists: totally flat, mountainous, mixed, dirt roads, advanced difficulty trails and an elevated cycling culture. The bicycle is widely used as a daily form of transportation by the locals and visitors alike. Moreover, the island offers high quality services and bike shops of high standards with a large variety of biking gear both for road bikes and mountain/gravel/adventure bikes.

Welcome to Kosta Palace City Hotel:

• Ideal starting point for exploring the island
• Views and relaxation
• Getaways to nearby islands
• Meters away from the historical town of Kos
• A great base station for wandering around on a bicycle

Ideal for couples, families and individuals wishing to discover the Koan legacy and traditions even during the tranquil sun-drench months of wintertime.

Kosta Palace City Hotel offers spacious twin rooms, superior deluxe panorama rooms, family rooms and apartments. The Business Superior rooms welcome visitors that combine work and vacations, offering the relevant facilities such as a desk and a chair, appropriate lighting, wall outlets, a coffee maker, exercising bike, high speed internet etc.

The Reception offers 24-hour service and information for the best vacations and excursions to the nearby islands of Kalymnos and Nisyros. The Lobby area is quite extensive both inside and outside, with a wonderful veranda. Various sitting areas accommodate vacationing friends, work groups and individuals nursing a cocktail at the bar. In a separate area you can find a business corner with a copier, a scanner and a printer.

But as Greeks say,” Your day will be as good as your morning is”.  So, with the bright sun’s rising and spreading his energy around, the “Greek Breakfast” welcomes the hotel’s guests, inviting them to enjoy local recipes with local, seasonal products. The dishes and their authentic flavors represent the cultural legacy, the fruits that the Koan land bears. Breakfast is an important meal, the warmest “good morning” to the visitor, offering energy and wellness. They can get to know the fruits that the land provides through all the seasons, the Mediterranean Diet. The Chef also suggests small, tasty meals during the day with fine local products: an array of cheese, the unique wine-aged cheese (krasotiri), olive oil, honey, local plum tomatoes and the whole-fruit preserves made from them, fresh vegetables and fruits, choice wines, phyllo pastries and cinnamon tea. The hotel has a Food Safety and Handling System.

Koullias Hotels take inspiration for their policies in all levels of Hospitality for their hotels (Achilleas Beach, Eurovillage Achilleas, Atlantis, Grand Blue, Kouros Palace, Kosta Palace) from the Hippocratic notion on health and well-being. They also sponsor the Hippocratic Foundation of Kos, by maintaining and promoting the Foundation’s Botanical Gardens with its 246 herbs and plants, used for medicinal purposes by Hippocrates himself.

The last floor, a roof-top with great views of the sea, the medieval fortress, the port and Kos Town, offers a large and a kids’ pool and cool drinks, for a fun refreshing atmosphere through the day and evening.

Our Hotel has committed to policies for saving the environment, the proper use of water and energy and the reduction of our ecological footprint in general. We have been appointed as “NATIONAL GREEN KEY OPERATOR” by the Hellenic Society for the Protection of Nature”.

Hippocrates, the great man of Kos (460-370bc). The “father of western medicine” and his counselings -up-to-date and contemorary in our days

Hippocrates was a philosopher, scientist, writer and a doctor – one the greatest among the bright minds of the Ancient Greek world.

In his healing methods he would always start by close observation of the manifestations of the disease. For the first time ever, Hippocrates was the one to explore the human anatomy and psyche as well. His philosophy was mainly based on prognosis than diagnosis, so he introduced the principles of the Science of treatment of the Body and Mind of Man.

He is recognized to be the “father of medicine” in the Western world. His scientific views as well as his principles on matters of medical morals and ethics were grouped together in 70 essays, known to be the “Hippocratic Corpus”. His most important work is the “Hippocratic Oath”, a complete code-of- ethics vow that even today doctors recite during their graduation in medical schools in Greece and around the world.

International hippocratic foundation of Kοs

Located on the eastern side of Asclepieion, it was founded in 1960, aspiring to promote Hippocrates’ principals and ideals around the world. It features a gallery with important exhibits, a standard model of Hippocrates’ infirmary and pharmacy, a well-stocked library, a conference room and the Botanical Gardens with medicinal herbs of the Greek flora mentioned in Hippocrates’ works.

Asclepieion, the sanctuary of asclepius

The Asclepieion of Kos, the ruins of which have been preserved since the 4^th century B.C., lies at a distance of 3,4 km northwest of Kos Town, amidst lush vegetation and with a wonderful view of the sea. It is the most important monument of the island and one of the most famous sanctuaries of this type, in antiquity. It was a religious sanctuary for the worship of the god Asclepius, a healing center and a medical school and Hippocrates taught at the school he himself founded within the temple area.

Koullias Hotels, supports the international hippocratic foundation of kos http://hippocraticfoundation.org/   by sponsoring the development and maintenance of the famous Hippocratic Botanical Gardens. The Group is committed to raising awareness about and encouraging visits to the Museum and Gardens. The goal of this initiative is to share the inspiration, the knowledge, the values and philosophy of Hippocrates, “Father of Western Medicine”, on health and wellbeing that are still true after 2500 years.

We share with you excerpts of hippocrates’ wisdom and philisophy, of great value in our lives

“Walking is the best medicine for man”

“If you are in a bad mood, you should take a walk. If you are still in a bad mood, take another walk.”

“Your food is your “medicine” and your “medicine” is your food”

“Anything in excess is in opposition to nature”

“Our natural internal forces are the true healers of every ailment”

Getting to know the island and the town

Kos town specifically and the whole island as well, are an open-air museum with iconic monuments, outdoors sites with free entrance, architectural diversity and an extended network of bike lanes. So, off we go with our bicycle, to visit “Neratzia”-the Medieval Knights Templar fortress, Hippocrates’ Plane, The Ancient Agora, the Museum, Casa Romana, Eleftherias Square with the traditional cafes, tavernas and the Municipal Market, the Hippocratic Foundation and Ascelpieion. You can also enjoy the outdoors Kos by visiting one of the fine wineries, taking a  horseback ride or trying some of the water sports available. Suggested excursions include Kalymnos island (a climbers destination), Nisyros island with its’ volcano, the Palaio Pyli fort and settlement, the Antimachea fort, the Basilicas of St. Stefanos and so much more.

For a day of cool and splashing fun, Kosta Palace suggests a visit to the refreshing Lido WaterPark.

Detailed cycling routes here and here .