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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.
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.
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.
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