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KALIMASSIA (Small town) CHIOS
Kallimasia is one of the island's largest mastic villages, the capital of the
Municipality of Ionia and the first village which visitors encounter 13 kilometers
from the town of Chios. It is built on a plain where deep green vegetation and
olive trees prevail. Inside the village, one will find the remains of medieval
towers, the well-preserved and impressive churches and the lively village squares.
The Women's Handicraft Association has managed to preserve the area's customs
in addition to customs found in other villages of the island. Also located in
the village is a Cultural Center. In the surrounding area, there is the nunnery
of Panaghia Plakidiotissa which was built on the remains of an earlier nunnery
dated to the 16th century. The area of Aghios
Emilianos, one kilometer from Kallimasia, has a magnificent beach for swimming.
KATARAKTIS (Settlement) CHIOS
Katarraktis is a small fishing village located 15 km south of the town of Chios. It is a small, cozy port perfect for sailboats and fishing boats. The fishing boats provide the village with the fresh fish served by the taverns lined up alongside the harbor of Katarraktis.
KINI (Settlement) CHIOS
The village Kini is located between Patrika,
Flatsia,
Vouno,
Pagida
and Kalamoti,
so Kini is a common land for all the above villages. In the ancient times it was
a great Byzantine center with many churches, but nowadays some of them is in ruin.
Kini is among the villages that were stroked by the catastrophic earthquake of
1881 and before this. The residents of the village are mainly farmers and are
occupied with the cultivation of the mastic, which is the main product of Mastichochoria.
This text is cited Febr 2004 from the Chios Prefecture Tourism Committee URL below.
MESSA DIDIMA (Village) CHIOS
Didima is the name for two villages - Mesa and Exo (In and Out)- which are located
next to the villages Mirmigi
and Tholopotami
and between Pagida
and Kalimasia.
They might be small villages in extent, but in the Medieval times had a great
prosperity. Mesa Didima is the birthplace of Emanuel Roidis. And here it is also
built the Monastery of Agia Matrona. The first nuns were his sisters. By the time
of Turkish domination the Reverent Father Nikiforos the Chian composed there 24
hymns to honor Agia Matrona. Today in the cloister live only 2-3 nuns.
This text is cited Febr 2004 from the Chios Prefecture Tourism Committee URL below.
MONI AGIAS MATRONIS CHALANDRON (Monastery) CHIOS
The Monastery was built by the noble Roidis in 1470 near the village
of Mesa Didima. He originally intended to build a summer villa, however, the St.
Matrona appeared in a dream and instructed him to build the Monastery instead.
His sisters were the first two nuns to enter the Monastery. The spiritual leader
of the Monastery during the Turkish Occupation was the Holy Nikiforos of Chios.
The Holy Nikiforos of Chios wrote the 24 Hymns of Agia Matrona. Today, four nuns
dwell in the Monastery. The Monastery celebrates the Saint’s Feast Day on October
20th of each year.
MONI PANAGIAS KIMISSEOS PLAKIDIOTISSAS (Monastery) CHIOS
Established in 1625, this monastery is located in Kallimasia.
Its name derived from the stone plates (places) found in the area. It is honored
on the same feast day as the Dormition of the Virgin (Tis Panaghias), August 15th.
During the horrible massacres of 1822 most of its 600 nuns were slaughtered or
deserted the monastery. One of the few who returned, Katafigi Mastroyanakis, found
the icon of the Virgin in a miraculous way. Today the monastery has three nuns.
MONI TAXIARCHON (Monastery) CHIOS
Tel: +30 22710 61469
This was established in 1305 in honor of the Dormition of the Virgin
but was renamed Monastery of Taxiarhon in 1306 after the discovery of the icon
of Archangel Michael (one of the Taxiarchi) in the following miraculous way: When
the monk Parthenios of Morea on the Greek mainland, painted the icon, he dedicated
it to this monastery and tossed it into the sea. The waves brought it to the shore
of Thymiana in Chios. The villagers who found it decided to build a church in
which to place it, but the Archangel appeared in their dreams and instructed them
to bring the icon to this monastery instead. The present monastic structures were
built after the original ones were destroyed in the terrible earthquakes of 1881.
Today there are eight nuns; the monastery celebrates its feast day on November
8.
NENITA (Small town) CHIOS
Tel: +30 22710 61451
Eighteen kilometers far from Chios
town, is located a big settlement, named Nenita. The village is stretched
out on a wide slope from where supervise the olive groves and the shore. During
the Medieval times Nenita was the biggest from all the Mastichochoria, with 2500
population, while today has been reduced to 1000 people. Nenita is the cultural
center of the Mastichochoria. The residents are mainly occupied with the cultivation
of the land and particularly with the mastic -trees. Up from the village is the
newest Monastery of Taxiarches. There are two more churches in the area, Saint
George and Agioi Anargiroi. Near the village's beach are located the settlements
of Gridia and Vokaria. The second is the closest point to the shores of Asia
Minor.
THOLOPOTAMI (Village) CHIOS
Tholopotami is beautifully situated up to the wooden, full of freshness hillsides
of Prophet Elias. The village is divided in two settlements, the Up Neighborhood
with the Holly Cross church and the Down Neighborhood with the narrow, small,
rising roads that make a net full of eyeshot surprises around the Assumption of
the Virgin and the churches of Saint Panteleimon, Saint Nicolas and Saint Victors.
In the area of Tholopotami it is worth to visit the area of Saint Peter, where
below from the church there is a small spring that considered to give holly water.
Near there someone can see the relics of an old fortress.
This text is cited Febr 2004 from the Chios Prefecture Tourism Committee URL below.
VOUNOS (Village) CHIOS
Vouno is another village of Mastichochoria. Here also thrives the famous mastic
-trees. The village took his name from the prestigious top where is located. There
was a big castle -tower in the village but had been destroyed after the earthquakes
that hit the area. There are many churches in the village, Prophet Elias, Saint
George, Agioi Apostoloi and Agios Nicolas.
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