The cultural center "Archaion Oikos" - "Garden of Hippocrates" is located in Mastichari of Kos and is a faithful representation of an ancient Greek house of the 5th century BC. It specializes in highlighting the ancient Greek way of life during the time when the great Greek physician Hippocrates of Koos lived.
It consists of a house that is an exact replica of the time, a philosophical gallery and a stone theater that will serve us in getting to know the philosophical and spiritual pursuits, but also the medical art of that time.
The House consists of two floors and is stone, made of stone from the island, the wooden roof has old tiles and the furniture is handmade copies of the period. The seminars held at the House every day are cooking, ceramics, philosophy, baking, agriculture, mosaic and pebbles.
The philosophical gallery, also built according to the standards of the time with handmade pebbles on the floor and embossed copies on the walls, houses works of art and a library. There is also the Stone Theater with a capacity of 80 people where the performances take place. The spaces are not museums, so the visitor can live and actively participate in the events of the cultural center. In addition to the seminars held on the premises of the center, the visitor can wander through the gardens where herbs, wild cedars, vines and fruit trees are all in harmony with each other.
If one wishes, one can learn botany, organic farming and viticulture, or simply rest one's spirit and body in an environment that has suffered almost no intervention. The land surrounding the center is a wildlife sanctuary and the crops grown are organic.
The Cultural Center consists of an "Ancient Greek House" an exact copy of the time, with the Hearth, the Living Room, the Bath, the Kitchen, the Andron, the Gynaikonitis and the Istiona, a Spiritual Lodge: "Philosophical Lodge" also built in period standards with hand-crafted cobbled floors and embossed replicas on the walls, which houses artwork and a library and a Stone Theatre.
Editor: Fotini Anastasopoulou