Location information

AGIASMATA (Settlement) KERAMOS
The seaside settlement of Agiasmata has a port, which serves the villages of Keramos, Leptopoda, Halandra and Aphrodisia, which are lying on the mountainsides of Amani. It is located 5 km from Keramos. Agiasmata, nowadays are inhabited mainly during summer, was once the trading centre of the neighboring villages and especially the trading centre of antimony (stibium) produced in the mines of Keramos. Agiasmata is famous for the curative properties of its spa that lie near the beach. In the village there are a health spa as well as rooms for rent and taverns operating during summertime.

This text is cited Febr 2004 from the Chios Prefecture Tourism Committee URL below.

• http://www.chios.gr/Villages/agiasmata_en.htm

Keramos Community

KERAMOS (Village) CHIOS
  Keramos emerges from the mountains of Amani and Pelineo through thick and rich vegetation. It was, for many decades, one of the most important villages of Amani due to the mining of antimony. The village is almost 14km from Volissos, at the beginning of the road that connects the road network of Amani with the villages of Leptopoda and Kambia.
  You can see the mines and the pitheads of antimony, which are still preserved and were operating up to the mid sixties. The galleries, the premises of the company that had exploited them until recently, the chemical laboratory, the kiln, and the chimney as well as the equipment of the premises are going to be collected by the local authorities in order to create an industrial museum of antimony, a unique of its kind within the Balkan region.