Excursion to Mastichohoria
Valid for the whole year
|Chios
Route: Armolia-Pyrgi-Mesta-Mastic Museum-Emporios
Time & Location
Valid for the whole year
Chios, Chios 821 00, Greece
About the event
Passing by the mansions of Kampos with their unique architecture we arrive atArmolia. The first of the mastic villages we will visit. The inhabitants of the village, in addition to the cultivation of mastic, showed special skill in the manufacture and decoration of clay objects, an art that many still practice today. In the village there are small stone houses, alleys and cobblestones. In the central church of the village, dedicated to Panagia, there is a iconostasis which dates back to 1744. Just outside the village there is a technical lake which serves to irrigate the crops.
Boarding the coach and we continue to the famousPyrgi. Much has been written about this village over the years. Here is rumored to be the house where Christopher Columbus stayed during his passage from Chios in search of worthy sailors for his voyages, while there is also the small church of Holy…