Trip to Kampos 2022 On the Southern part of Chios you will find the area of Kampos. On a sunny spring day, we went to visit this area of the Island. As soon as we entered Kampos, we could appreciate how unique it was. The buildings stand out form the […]
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On the 4th of July 2018, Vrontados celebrated its 100th anniversary on the square in front of the unknown sailor statue. After most visitors had taken a place, the first speaker was already announced by the headmaster of the 2nd primary school. We heard speeches by different headmasters of Vrontados’ […]
Pyrgi is the largest medieval village of Chios island, located at a 25-kilometre-distance from Chios town. In general it is a very impressive and beautiful place with an interesting background. When we had the change to visit the village, the buildings facades were the first things that caught our attention. […]
On Saturday the 11th of November we went all the volunteers together on a small trip over the island. With our director as our guide it happened to be a really nice and educative excursion. Our first stop was in Nea Moni. Nea Moni is an old monastery build in […]
Anavatos is one of many hidden jewels on Chios island. We visited the city in the middle of November but it was still warm enough to enjoy the mystique and history of this place. But even if it had been very cold, Anavatos would have enchanted its visitors anyway. Anavatos […]
Last saturday we were visiting the leper colony (“Lepokomeio”) just 5 kilometers away from the port of Chios city. Founded by the Genoese conquerors, the leper colony was built in 1378 and one of the first institution of it’s kind. People, infected by leprosy were exiled from the community and […]
Nea Moni is the most important monument of the island, famous all over the world because of the unique golden mosaics that are almost 1000 years old. Dating back to the 11th century, this is one of the three remaining collections left in Greece of the mid-Byzantine period and it […]
In the summertime of 2011 we, the volunteers, decided to see and visit more places on the Island, we are living on. The places we chose for this one-day trip were Mesta and Pyrgi. Mesta is an very old village with a unique architecture and structure of its buildings, which […]
Every year on the 25th of March whole Greece is celebrating. In every school children create a parade and theatre plays or other presentations to the topic 25th of March. In the cities there are bigger parades and the Greek flag is present everywhere. But what is this exciting day about? In […]
No, it is not necessarily New Years Eve when you hear rockets and fireworks in Vrontados. It is an old tradition there to fire thousands of rockets at two churches in the night before Easter Sunday. This is called rocket war because both churches have a team and they pretend […]
Oxi Day is celebrated in Greece and Cyprus to commemorate the Greek Prime Minister Ioannis Metaxas’ rejection of the ultimatum given by Italian dictator Benito Mussolini on October 28, 1940. The name of this holiday is taken from the word the minister used when he objected to the Italian leader. The […]
On the 28th of October each year the “Oxi Day” is celebrated throughout Greece. On this special day there is held a parade in the central square of Chios City to celebrate the historical day in 1940, when the Greek Prime Minister Metaxas rejected the the ultimatum made by the […]