Villages frozen in the medieval period. Volcanic beaches. Byzantine monasteries. The story of Chios told through its places.
Where every wall is a canvas of ancient geometric art
A medieval labyrinth built as a weapon against pirates
A living harbor city where Byzantine, Genoese, and Ottoman layers stack like geological strata
A medieval village perched 360 meters above sea level, surrounded by ancient olive groves
An abandoned Byzantine city perched on a vertical cliff, frozen in 1822
The least-visited mastic village — and the most authentically unchanged
A working mastic village in the southeast, where life moves at the pace of the harvest
Quiet, genuine, and almost entirely unvisited — the mastic village most travelers never find
The most westerly of the mastic villages, perched above the Aegean with views toward Turkey
A beautifully restored medieval village above the west coast, gateway to Elinta beach
A forested mountain village that guards the road to Chios's greatest Byzantine treasure
Where Chios's ancient ceramic tradition has been kept alive for centuries
A traditional farming village with a remarkable folklore museum hidden in a school basement
The proud capital of northern Chios, where the island's greatest shipping families were born
A small bay village with the best fish tavernas in northern Chios
A mountain village at the entrance to the great gorge of northern Chios
A seaside town with a claim on Homer and the most extraordinary Easter tradition in Greece
A small seaside village where olive groves meet the sea and the pace of life slows to nothing
A working agricultural village in the southeastern mastic zone, surrounded by ancient olive trees
A small harbour village near Karfas that comes alive in summer without ever losing its character
A traditional farming village between Chios Town and the beaches, famous for its summer cherry harvest