Agios Dimitrios (gr. Άγιος Δημήτριος) is a largely dilapidated and abandoned village not far from Zia. The place which is also known as "ghost village" is located on the road from Kos town to Zia between the Asklepieion and the town of Asfendiou, about 7 kilometers southwest of Kos town and about 2 km from Zia at an altitude of about 270 to 290 meters. Some houses have been restored and there is a Kafenio (Kos Ghost Town Taverna or Haihoutes Cafe) and a small museum in the village.
The current name of the place is derived from the church in the village dedicated to St. Dimitrios, until 1950 the place was called Chaichoutes (Heihoutes or Haihoutes).
Agios Dimitrios is said to have consisted of 30 houses grouped around a well in the second half of the 19th century, but in the following decades the resident population continued to decrease until the place was practically deserted. In 2013 the village was designated as a "Historical Site" as a characteristic example of a rural settlement of traditional Dodecanese architecture around 1840.
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