The Minoan settlement on the island dates back to 1450 from ruins which have been found on the Seragia hill (today’s old town). The dead city which was found in the South Western part of the city also belongs to the same period. The settlement of the 7th and 6th century BC took up the largest area of the shrinking geometrical settlement. The Minoan findings show that the settlements were made over the ruins of ancient settlements

The wall of the ancient city of Kos has the shape of a ring with a perimeter of about 4 kilometres. The wall surrounded a residential area and also a large area of the south of the city with fields and gardens. Parts of the northern side of the wall can be visited today at the Limenis archaeological site. It shapes a crooked line which follows the curve of the coast of the harbour. It’s made of  big rectangular stones and has a height of 4 of these stones. The two towers were found in this area, one a rectangular the

After the settlement of 366BC the new city of Kos was constructed according to the Ippodanio Street Planning System: the wall of the city would be ring shaped and it would bring the inside area to a perimetrical road from which direction B-N and A-D started. All these directions crossed over between themselves shaping the interior of the city in a hexagon shape which separated the residential area in blocks. In the centre of the city was the Market(Agora) on the west side the