Museums
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Leros is reach on all the historical periods
Ancien Greece , Byzantine empire , Turkish ocupation , Italian ocupation , German ocupation .

The castle of Leros
The catle is called the castle of Hooly Mairy because in the castle is the church of Hooly Mairy (PANAGIA).The castle was made by the Byzntines and later remade by the Knights of saint Jhonn .
The ancient museum of the castle
In the castle is the ancient museum with lots of material from the period of ancient Greece .
The Byzantine museum of the castle
There a verry rich in material museum of the Byzantine period in the castle .
Museum of the ancient period
The museum of the ancient period is situeted next to the school of Agia Marina .
Belenis museum
In Alinda is the Belenis tower . The tower has been build by a rich Lerian of Egypt Belenis during the early years of the 20th century .
Here are 2 museums inside the tower.
The first is the folk myseum with the way the Lerians use to live from the 18th century untill the 20 th century.
Second is the muesum of the Queen Olga ,the legendery Greek war boad sonk by the Nazis airplanes in the harbor of Lakki during the second wold war.
Ther are 2 more museums in Leros
They are private museums about the second world war .

The bigest of this museums is situeted in Platanos town and it belongs to mister Tasos Kanaris