The castle of Chios was constructed in the medieval period with its first construction phase having started in the 10th century by the Byzantines. The structures surviving to this day are part of later construction…
Mesta is a Greek traditional village on the island of Chios. It belongs to the Mastic Villages, a group of villages in South Chios where the main activity is the manufacture of mastic. The mastic…
Katarraktis (meaning waterfall) was a medieval settlement and important castle which have been destroyed in the big earthquake of 1881. After that disaster, the survivors moved to a new location, the modern village Katarraktis on…
Pyrgi is a picturesque medieval village on the island of Chios, known as the “painted village” thanks to the unique facade of the stone houses, which mostly consist of stunning grey and white decorative motives…
The Avgonima is a medieval village located in central Chios 16 kilometers from the city of Hui. The houses are built of stone and with small windows. The whole village is located on a rocky…
The Chios Mastic Museum is located in the Mastichochoria (literally: mastic villages), a group of medieval villages in Southern Chios, the only site in the Mediterranean where the mastic tree, or Pistacia lentiscus var. Chia,…
The Koraes Library is one of the biggest libraries in Greece. Founded in 1792, it was originally an annex to the Great School of Chios. The latter currently houses the 1st Middle School of Chios.…
Volissos (Greek: Βολισσός) is the largest village in the northwest part of Chios, Aegean Islands, Greece. The village is situated 40 km away from the main town of Chios. Volissos has a port called "Limia"…
The development of the Kampos as the southwards continuation of the town of Chios began in the years of Genoese domination (1346-1566). It was the foreign overlords (The Giustiniani) who organized the islands economy on…
Olympos, like the very picturesque neighboring villages of Mesta and Pyrgi, is one of the 21 mastic villages of Chios During the Genoese period (1346-1566), the village as well as the rest of the Mastic…
