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Chios or Chora is the capital of the district that, apart from Chios, it also includes Oinousses and Psara. It is located in the eastern part of the island overlooking the coast of Asia Minor. It’s a busy town of about 25.000 inhabitants, which has been modernized in such a way providing the comforts of modern lifestyle and preserving its...
Kabos is an idiomorphic settlement, which lies right next to Chora, known for its fragrant citrus fruits and its colorful mansion-houses. Behind the tall surrounding wall, each mansion-house has a garden- much bigger than the ordinary ones-where the famous citrus fruits of Chios are brought on. It usually has a large draw well, from which the...
If you drive 25km south of Chios, you will face an architectural ornament, a medieval village of unrivalled beauty, Pyrgi. This fortress of angular and quarter structure bespeaks the need of the inhabitants to protect their property from pirate raids until the Ottoman Empire. The serried-stone houses built next to each other, the arcades and...
Another beautiful castle-village, Olympi, of the 14th century is located nearby Pyrgi. The earthquake that shook the island in 1881 left the medieval constructions of the village intact and, therefore, the visitors can wander around the same shady archways and the narrow cobblestone pavements among the tall buildings organized like a fortress....
An ambulatory route of average duration links Olympi with the quite remote, relating to the rest of the Mastihohoria, location of Mesta. It is considered to be the most well-preserved medieval village, while its defensive structure resembles Olympi and Pyrgi. Mesta and Pyrgi are marked down on a map dated from 1422 that confirms the date of its...
Lithi is located on an unobtrusive bulge between two Mastihohoria, Mesta and Vessa, just 23km southwest of the capital. It has a similar structure with the other medieval villages, while the production of mastic is also evident here as well as fishing. Apart from the great benefactor Andreas Syngros, the bishop of Pentapolis, Agios Nektarios,...
If you follow the coastline, you will find yourself in the maritime cosmopolitan Karfas, just 7km away from the capital. It was named after the Homeric word "karfaleos", which means arid. Located on a hilly coast is one of the most cosmopolitan places in the south part of the island with excellent tourist infrastructures (various hotels,...
Thymiana is one of the largest villages on the island with approximately 1600 inhabitants. The main places of interest in Thymiana are the nautical club, the elementary school, the Fatouros Garden and the church of Agios Efstratios. The ferruginous tufa, extracted from the local quarries, adorns the houses and the churches. It is a particularly...
Within 21km from Chora, the medieval village Kalamoti has approximately 600 inhabitants, but was once a prosperous Mastihohori and the administrative center of the area. That's the reason why its buildings are more gallant. The defensive wall that protected the locals from the pirate raids is not evident nowadays. However, a section of the...
Within 13km from Chora, you will see the peaceful Kallimasia, one of the main villages in southeastern Chios, overlooking the endless blue sea. It is considered to be the birthplace of two Ecumenical Patriarchs, of Joachim II Kokkodis and Joachim II Krousoulidis. The Folkloric Museum extended in 550m2 with thousands of displays, the temple of...
Armolia is located 21km southeast of Chora on the road Kalamoti-Pyrgi. It was named either after the god Mercury (Ermis > Ermolia) or the Greek verb "armozo"(befit) > Armogia, which was later established as Armolia. Moreover, it is a village of approximately 600 inhabitants hidden between two mountains, where the ungrudging nature with the...
Traveling 19km southwest of the capital, you will meet a semi-alpine village-a village built mostly by stone as the dominant architectural feature- that lies in a valley maintaining its traditional color. The places of interest in the area are the residence of the Ecumenical Patriarch Konstantinos V Voliadis and the temple of Agios Dimitrios....
Thucydides claimed that Volissos was the birthplace of Homer. Volissos is one of the oldest villages in the northwest Chios with approximately 500 inhabitants. The modern infrastructures related to its long history manifest a distinctive contrast. The Castle on top of the hill overlooking the village, the Byzantine churches, the famous...
Vrontados is located just 4km from Chora and it could be even one of its suburbs. The area of the tan yards (tanneries, the last of which shut down during the 90's) recalls the glorious times of the past, while the three mills, which were used to clean the hides, have been renovated. In the roots of Epos, this amphitheatrically town with...
After Vrontados and Pantoukios, 15km from the Lagkadian valleys, you will see the fertile plain of Kardamila, which covers the extent of the ancient Kardamili. Generations and generations of ship-owners have been raised up in the Kardamilan grounds, since stock farming and merchant marine are the main goldmines of the area. The village has two...
The main avocations of the Lagkadian inhabitants are the olive trees, fruit trees, farming and fishing activities. This fishing village, which resembles Galaxidi with its basic infrastructures, spreads in the northeastern coast of the island, just 16km from Chios, and has managed to survive pirate raids and earthquakes maintaining a...
Sykiada, built on a slope, and its little port, Pantoukios can not be characterized as holiday resorts. On the contrary, the visitors will be surprised by the tranquility of the area. The images that compose the picturesqueness of the village are only one taverna, a few inhabitants and even less cars. You can observe the new and the old...
