Det ligger ca. 4 km fra Kos by. Så jeg valgte at tage med en af de små tog, som kører der til. Så for man også en lille rundtur i Kos by. Det kostede kun 5 euro at køre med toget og børn under 10 år er gratis, så det er da billigt. Det er dog ikke gratis at se Asklepieion, ligesom det har været med de andre gamle bygninger jeg har set. Det koster 4 euro at komme ind. Men jeg synes det var pengene værd.
Desværre havde man kun en time ved Asklepieion, før det lille tog kom efter en igen. Jeg kunne sagtens have brugt meget mere tid derude. For det er virkelig et stort område, meget større end man kan fornemme på billederne.
Asklepieion siges at være det første hospital i verden. Det er bygget i det 3. århundrede f.k.f, det blev bygget for at ære guden for sundhed og medicin, Asklepios, efter den berømte græske læge Hippocrates var død. Symbolet for dette hospital var en slange, som grækerne ærede fordi den havde en stor evne til at udvælge helbredende urter. Idag ses slangen stadig som en symbol indenfor medicin.
Ud over hospital var der også forskellige templer og præster, så folk som var syge kunne komme til at bede, hvis det var de ønskede.
Jeg synes at det var meget spændende at gå blandt alle ruinerne. Man kunne sagtens fornemme hvor stort det hele har været. Flere steder kunne man stadig se rummene, som de havde været engang, på trods af, at området har været udsat for flere jordskælv de sidste 2000 år.
Desværre er nogle af billederne lidt mørke, for igen driller solen lidt.
(Yesterday I went to see Asklepieion, which is probably the biggest tourist attraction in Kos.
It is located approx. 4 km from the Kos City. So I chose to go with one of the little train that runs to the place. Moreover, you get a little tour of Kos City. It only cost 5 euros to drive with the train and children under 10 are free, so it's not that expensive. However, it is not free to see Asklepieion, just as it has been with the other old buildings I've seen. It costs 4 euros to enter. But I think it was worth the money.
Unfortunately we had only one hour at Asklepieion before the little train came again. I could easily have spent a lot more time out there. For it is really a large area, much larger than you can imagine when you see the pictures.
Asklepieion said to be the first hospital in the world. It is built in the 3rd century BC, it was built to honor the god of health and medicine, Asclepius, after the famous Greek physician Hippocrates was dead. The symbol for this hospital was a snake, which the Greeks honorable because it had a great ability to pick healing herbs. Today you can still see the snake as a symbol of medicine.
In addition to the hospital, there were also various temples and priests, so people who were sick could come and pray.
I think it was very exciting to walk among all the ruins. One could easily feel how great it all was. Several places you could still see the rooms as they had been even in spite of the fact that the area has suffered several earthquakes over the last 2000 years.
Unfortunately, some of the pictures are a little dark because of the Sun.)
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