In the photo above is the view of the south part of the castle. Aboce the steps is the entrance ot the castle.
There is no significant building inside the castle and there is just this vast space.
This is a passage inside the castle. It is so narrow that many people cannot come in at a time. An ancient column is reused as lintel.
In front of the guy who is sitting is a small and dark room, probably used as a store or prison.
Cannons and cannon-balls left inside the castle.
This is a wall of the southern part. There is little remained from the Turkish period in the caslte, but this relief must be Islamic. Besides, I found some Arabic numbers inscribed on some parts of the wall.
Just below the Turkish relief, there is a reused building element from the Hellenistic period, the same one used at the entrance of the castle.
According guidebooks, there is supposed to be an antiquarium that collects ancient sculptures and inscriptions found in the castle, but, when we visited there, the building looked like it was closed. There was, however, a number of sculpted marbles at the level of the entrance (that you can probably identify in the first photo).
The ancient inscribed marbled reused as building material. It might not be very clear, but you can probably see Greek letters on the surface (right side up).
To construct this castle, the Western Europeans collected the marbles from the ancient buildings in Kos town and in Asklepieion. As consequence, we can see a lot of Ancient inscriptions and sculptures here.
This is the port of Kos seen from the castle. There is a wide promenade along the seaside.
Reference
- Robin Barber, Greece (Blue Guide), London- N.Y. 2001 (Revised reprint of the 6th edition of 1995), pp. 709-716.
- Marc Dubin, The Rough Guide to the Dodecanese & East Aegean Islands (3rd ed.), London: Rough Guides Ltd., 2002, p. 227-228.
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