Basilika Agios Pavlos

Zia Village - Kos Island

Asfendiou is situated 14 kilometers south west of Kos Town at the mountainside of Mountain Dikeo. There are around 100 permanent residents and according to history the old village flourished between 1850 and 1940. Asfendiou thanks to viniculture and olive-crop has a very interesting architecture with two different “neighbourhoods”, Evagelistria or Pera Gitonia and Asomatos. Close to the village you can find the beautiful villages of Zia, Agios Dimitrios, Zipari, Tigaki, Linopoti and Lagoudi. Places worth visiting include the church of Asomaton Taxiarchon of the 11th Century with its wooden temple and the ruins of the Early Christian Basilica of Agios Pavlos (Saint Paul) just further away from the village.