Chios is an island with great natural and cultural beauty. A regal place. One can realize this in her history, her monuments and her modern life.

The South of the island, the area of the cultivation of mastic trees, is a living museum. The medieval villages of the area have a rare quaint beauty which charms the visitor. The village of Mesta is a place of amazing beauty. A living medieval village, with great and unspoiled architecture, composed as a fortified whole. Similar is the nearby village of Olympoi. While the village of Pyrgi is renown for the unique decoration of its houses, following a medieval tradition. Other living medieval villages of the area are Kalamoti, Armolia and Vessa.

Anavatos, 16km west of Chios, is an abandoned medieval town, which stand at the top of a hill. It is regarded as one of the most atmospheric places of the Aegean region.

Near the town of Chios the famed Kampos is a place of rare beauty. A plain full of citrus orchards and rich gardens. Here stand tens of old, some even medieval, villas of imposing architecture. A dreamy place, renown for centuries for his regal character.

In the town, the medieval Castle of Chios is a quaint place, still inhabited and preserving its old aura.

Another romantic medieval castle crown the traditional and picturesque village of Volissos, 40km NW of Chios.

At Vrontados village there is the famed Daskalopetra or Homer’s stone. It attract a lot of visitors, since the old times, because it is regarded as the place of Homer’s school. It is difficult to say what really it is. Probably it is a base for a very ancient statue, and a place of worship. It seems that