The island of mastic Chios the fragrant brags about its story and the perfect climate, the one and only and the numerous beaches with their light blue waters, with villages built on hills or steep rocks, all of them full of tastes and fragrances of mastic and fresh air. In that way Chios becomes a destination and achieves a special place in the heart of each visitor. Each and every person who visits Chios reassures that Chians know how to spend their lives. Of course no one leaves the island w...
A trip to the villages of Chios is an experience of a lifetime! Chios has 66 different picturesque villages inextricably tied to nature. The tour of the places in northern Chios, combining mountain and sea, is highly anxiolytic... On the south side of the island there is a different kind of atmosphere. There’s the smell of mastic that travels you in time... in medieval villages, built like fortresses to protect the inhabitants from the pirates. If your journey happens to be afternoon in western...
Easter festivities in Vrontados Vrontados: Ηere Easter is a BLAST! Apart from being the Island of Aromas in the Northeastern Aegean, Chios is well known for the magnificent Easter festivities too. The scenic picture of ship owners’ mansions with exquisite flower garden designs, peaceful little ports with colourful boats, and picturesque windmills by the sea, dramatically changes after the Resurrection mass. On the night of the Holy Saturday the villagers of Vrontados are ready to set the nig...
The Town of Chios The Town is built on the boundaries of the Old Town. A number of archaeological findings indicate the existence of an important Ionian city with a large harbor, theater and temples continue to live until the end of Ultimate antiquity. Since its establishment until the present day the city of Chios, always namesake of the island, was the administrative, economic and cultural center of the island. The city currently spends a period of prosperity. The inhabitants are engaged in m...
The mastic tree or lentisk (scientific name: Pistacia Lentiscus var. Chia), is an evergreen shrub, 2-3 metres high that develops very slowly and becomes fully grown after 40-50 years, reaching up to the height of 5 meters at its mature age. Its life span is more than 100 years but it cannot produce mastiha earlier than the fifth or sixth year of its life. It reaches its maximum yield after the fifteenth year. After 70 years of age, its yield regresses significantly. Its average annual yield by t...
