This beautiful and picturesque colonizing is located on the slopes
of mount "Kakia Skala". So it watches from the top all the Kampochora, the Kambos,
the sea and the coast of Ionia (Asia Minor) across the Aegean. The village took
its name from the dafnes (=laurels) and it's 9,5 kilometers away from the city
of Chios if you go by Halkios, but if you go by the "Koris Gefiri" and Psaropetra,
it is 8 kilometers. The tradition mentions that the village comes from an old
colonizing at Petrana, at Kanavoutsata, or at Lavrina. It was transferred at its
present location, always according to the tradition, at the end of the 10th and
the beginning of the 11th century.
The favored Saint of the village is Agios Panteleimon, the temple
of whom is at the entrance of the village with a wonderful stone belltower, built
in 1990. In the village there is Agios Georgios church, an ancient and parish
temple which has been repaired and renewed recently. Around the village there
are the places Kanavoutsato, Stratigato, Vestarchato, where there was plenty of
Medieval and older Greek material. Those names show the marks the Genoese leadership
left in the area, like the ruined castle in the center of the village, the tower
in Lavrina, etc.
