Place - History of Chios

Whatever one says about her fragrant Chios they are not much! In the multifaceted and smiling crowd of the Aegean islands, the Chios stands out with its style and legend. She stands a little aside, lonely, idiosyncratic, considering her lost greatness, her disasters, but always on alert and ready to be reborn from her ashes.

What to say about its history and culture of the island of Homer, for the town of Chios - the Venice of the East until its destruction in 1822 -, the unique settlements in Mastic villages, the North and the Plain. In no other Aegean island did architecture find such a shocking representation: Middle Ages, Byzantium, Genoa, Venice, Turkey, France. Humble folk architecture, castle villages, mahalades, proud mansions and the most eclectic of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th. A living museum of architecture and life at the same time.

It is worth wandering from village to village and discovering hidden treasures, the few but always great people, the soul of this place, the island of poverty and wealth, the land and the sea, the of mastic and the seas, crops and seafaring.