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Chios Port Address

Agoudimos
CHIOS (CHI)
Town
NORTH AEGEAN
GREECE
82100
Greece

About Chios

Chios is the fifth largest of the Greek islands, situated in the Aegean Sea seven kilometres (five miles) off the Turkish coast and is 283km to the north east of the mainland port of Piraeus. Alternative names have included; Sakız (Ottoman Turkish), Scio (Genoese), Chio (Italian), Khora, Chora, Castro and Kastron (Greek).

Chios is also the name of the island's main town and administrative centre, although it is often referred locally as Chora (Χώρα - literally meaning "The Town"). The UNESCO World Heritage Site, the 11th century monastery of "Nea Moni", is located on Chios.

Chios is a very attractive island of Greece full of lush vegetation, fine beaches and unique medieval villages which are kept in very good condition. Chios offers a lively nightlife, great natural beauty and numerous sights.

The package holiday industry has been kept at bay partly because of the lack of direct charter flights from northern Europe and partly because the island's past wealth and self-sufficiency enabled it to resist the lure of the tourist industry. Foreign visitors didn't arrive here in any significant numbers until the 1980s and even today the island remains mercifully unspoilt by the worst excesses of tour group tourism. Rumour has is that some of the shipping magnates who have luxurious summer retreats on the satellite island of Inousses, off the north east tip of Chios, pay the locals not to set up tavernas and domatia. And wealthy landowners have seen no reason to surrender their land in order to extend the runway to accommodate big jets at Chios airport.

Most holiday accommodation is in Chios Town, on the island's east coast, which is home to about half the island's 50,000-strong population. The town lacks the charm of many other Greek island ports simply because most of it was destroyed in the violent earthquake of 1881 when 6,000 islanders were killed. But there are some interesting museums to visit and a charming old quarter with narrow lanes flanked by Turkish houses built around a Genoese-Byzantine castle. The town's lively and colourful bazaar is a fascinating place to visit with merchants hawking all manner of goods from screeching monkey and parrots to the local mastic gum which was the island's chief export for centuries.

A visit to the so-called "mastic villages" in southern Chios is top of most tourists' agenda. The medieval architecture and elaborate artwork adorning the walls of the local houses make these some of the most unusual and attractive settlements in the Greek islands. The fortified villages were built in the 14th and 15th centuries and prospered from production of gum from the mastic bushes which flourish in the area. For centuries the local mastic resin was used in paints, cosmetics, medicines and an addictive chewing gum enjoyed by the Ottoman sultans and their harems.

One of the island's other major attractions is the World Heritage listed Monastery of Nea Moni, built in the 11th century high up in the mountains 15 kilometres west of the capital. Both the Byzantine building and its collection of well-preserved mosaics rank among the finest of their kind in Greece. Just inside the main gate a chapel serves as a chilling reminder of one of the most horrific massacres of the Greek War of Independence. A cabinet contains the skulls and bones of islanders who fled to the monastery to escape the Turks during the uprising of 1822. About 30,000 islanders were slaughtered and tens of thousands more were taken as slaves.

Chios Ferry Timetables

Agoudimos: Rhodes Chios
Agoudimos: Chios Alexandroupolis
Agoudimos: Chios Kalimnos
Agoudimos: Chios Kos
Agoudimos: Chios Lesbos
Agoudimos: Chios Limnos
Agoudimos: Chios Rhodes
Agoudimos: Chios Vathi
Agoudimos: Lesbos Chios
Agoudimos: Limnos Chios
Agoudimos: Alexandroupolis Chios

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