Pyli
The few hundreds of houses that form the town Pyli surround the central square.
It is a nice square, with traditional stone buildings, traditional cafes and small taverns, the heart of everyday life of the locals.
One of the best building is the “Pyliotiko Spiti” (“the house of Pyli”), it is an old house with three rooms, where it is represented the kitchen, the living room and the bedroom of a traditional house of the past, with original furniture and objects, as its owners left them some more than 70 years ago.
At a distance of less than 100 meters from the house there is a spring with cool water, flowing from 6 fountains.
Just beside the spring, you will see the ancient vaults, which, according to tradition, are related to the local hero of the island.
Almost every city in ancient Greece would have been founded by a hero from the past, which are closely in touch with the gods stood.
For the inhabitants of Kos was that a certain Harmylos.
Here, in what is now Pyli, was Harmylos and the twelve Olympian gods honored in a building with a barrel vault and six niches in each of the side walls.
The building dates from the 4th century BC.
Beyond the grave you recognize the remains of a temple or a mausoleum.
The back wall of it was later used as the left wall of a chapel.
Especially the front of the chapel is very beautiful, with two sandstone blocks which in you can identify an early Christian cross embossing.
The stone inscription (3rd century BC.) next to the entrance of the chapel can be seen that this holy place was dedicated to the Olympian gods and the hero Harmylos.
