It is located in the north east Aegean, close to Turkey. Chios boasts beautiful and diverse landscapes, unique architecture and an extraordinary historical background. It is one of the few remaining places that is truly Greek and almost untouched by tourism. You will find friendly and welcoming people, unspoilt rural villages, secluded bays and hidden treasures of times past, all set amidst a magnificent landscape. An old tradition in Chios says that when Agios Isidoros was taken by the Romans to the place of his execution, the Saint was so exhausted that he cried and his tears falling on the ground became the aromatic “masticha”. This is also how it is explained that the same tree, growing in many other places in the Mediterranean, only produces mastic in Chios. The Chora of Chios is on the East coast of the island, facing the coasts of Asia Minor. On the West coast there are famous medieval villages such as Olympoi and Mestà, Pyrgi and Volissos, as well as traditional villages and gorgeous sandy beaches.
How to get there
By ferry from Pireus, from Saronic, from Kavala, from Limnos, from Mytilini, from Samos and from Dodecanese.
