If you want to feel 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? Her brief life is connected with Chios, and on the day of her birthday, July 22 all the pilgrims and all women who have the name Marcella from all over Greece come here. Can I hint that here are performed miracles of healing?
Can I whisper to you that on Chios you can plunge into 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 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! 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 Byzantine monasteries and churches will truly amaze you with their history.
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If you plan to travel to Chios at Easter, do not forget to visit the seaside village of Vrontado where you will have a unique experience. One of the most intense traditional Easter customs there is "the war with fireworks" that is launched between the quaint villages of Agios Markos and Panagia of Erythiani. Easter in Chios is one of the most impressive in Greece and the show that is connected to it is nothing short of spectacular!