Dodekanissa is the name of a group of Greek islands that is located in the south east of the Aegean just off the Turkish coast and it contains more than nineteen inhabited and around fifty small uninhabited islands.

The island of Kós is known as the ‘green pearl of the Aegean’, an historic oasis beneath the Greek sun. Although not the largest of the Dodekannissa Islands it is certainly one of its most fascinating. The capital of the island is Chora Kós and nearly half the island’s inhabitants live there. A modern collection of sculptures point to the island’s most famous son., Hypocrates, whose greatest legacy is the Hippocratic Oath of today.

Four kilometres from the city high in the Dikeos Mountains is one of the island’s most important sights, the Asklipion, an ancient hospital and sanctuary. It was there that the Greeks worshipped the god of medicine who was later named Äskulap by the Romans.

Symi is a beautiful island only four sea miles away from the Turkish coast and forty two kilometres north west of Rhodes. The island is characterised by its yellow Neo-Classical houses with their shutters and doors in blue and red as well as their tiled roofs.

Rhodes is the largest island of the Dodekanissa. Since antiquity this special location has brought it both power and wealth. On the northernmost tip of the island is the fascinating metropolis of Chora Ródos whose harbour entrance was once adorned by the Seventh Wonder Of The World, the Colossus of Rhodes.

For more than two hundred years the Grand Master Palace and the Knight’s Hospital were the island’s most important buildings and today the Order’s well-preserved hospital is open to the general public.

It was in Rhodes that the sun was born and where gods, knights and tourists have always sought good fortune and have been captivated by the enchanting islands of the Dodekanissa.