Volissos, Chios: The Hilltop Village, Castle and West Coast

The hilltop village of Volissos climbing beneath its Byzantine castle in north-west Chios

Volissos is the stone showpiece of western Chios, a village of restored houses climbing an amphitheatre of hillside beneath a Byzantine castle, above the emptiest and most beautiful coast on the island. The largest settlement of the north-west, it is linked by an old tradition to Homer, guards a collection devoted to the legendary Ariousios … Read more