The Cave of Aspri Petra
The
opening of the cave is located 257m above sea level on the Zini hill, which is
3km away from the Kefalos
settlement and 33km away from the town of Kos. It was created 100 million years ago from heavily deformed
ash-white limestone. In 1922, the Italian archaeologists A. Seta and D. Levi
discovered ancient jar fragments, millstones, human fossils, blades made from
obsidian, food relics and objects for cosmetic use that were made of bones in
the cave. Most of them date back to the Early Helladic period and are related
to the movement of the Pelasgians from mainland Greece and Asia Minor to the
islands of the Aegean. More recent findings belonging to the Greek Dark Ages
and the Hellenistic Period show that the cave was used as a place of worship of
rural deities.

The Plane tree of Hippocrates
This
historical tree is located on the mound between Finikon Street and the archaeological
site of the ancient port opposite the Lotzia mosque. There is a marble wall fount
attached to its pedestal with an Ottoman inscription that reads “Hippocrates’s
water”. The trunk of the plane tree measures 9,8m in diameter and if it is indeed
related to the father of modern medicine, then it must have sprouted from an
earlier tree. This plane tree may be more than 400 years old, as it already looked
way old in pictures of the 19th century.
