Chios..... the mystical Island!

If you want to fell it, to understand the atmosphere on the island you should go there.....

If I tell you that here was Christopher Columbus? Is it true that in some villages on this island some people have the same name and surname?

  If I tell you that here was born Saint Marcella?

 Hers brief life is connected with Chios,

and the day of her birthday July 22 all the pilgrims and all woman who have the name Marcella from all over Greece come here.

  Can I hint that here is performed miracles of healing? 

Can I whisper to you that on Chios you can plunge in the mysteries of the middle age, visiting the villages Anavatos, Avgonima and Mesta?

Or exclaim loudly that Chios - the only place in the world, which produces mastic, which makes excellent taste of any sweetness, mastic, which previously competed with vanilla and is used for medicinal and cosmetic purposes?

Of course, you can just fall apart and lie on the beach in Karfas (golden sand and shallow sea), St. Markell (pebbles), and Nagose Yosonose (pebbles) or Maura Volya (black pebbles and spectacular scenery), but you can skip one day in Turkey (or vice versa, from Turkey to Chios!) or to participate in gathering mastic, to eat roast goat in the medieval village Avgonima, to visit Omirupoli and Daskalopetra, where taught Homer, to discover silver religious affiliation of tsarist of Russia in the medieval sites, or just to enjoy the amazing taste of the local citrus and their products and to take a ride on the Genoese "summer cottages", and you must to look  "Argentikon."

I'll tell you a secret: the man, who presented to the king's table the caviar from Russia and Europe, was from ...  Chios! And the island itself had close relationships with St. Petersburg.

Chios has another secret: come here in March and see ... field of wild tulips in Anemone.

Can I surprise you saying that Chios – is the birthplace of tulips, from where they were moved to the Netherlands?

Numerous of Byzantine monasteries and churches will truly amaze you with its history.

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And be sure to come to this unusual island, as you know it is better to see once than hear a hundred times!