Mitilini,
the main port and capital, home to about 25000,
sprawls between and around two broad bays divided
by a fortified promontory, and in Greek fashion
often doubles as the name of the island it self....
Molyvos
(officially Mithimna), 61Km from Mytilini, is arguably
the most beautiful village on Lesvos. Tiers of sturdy,
red-tiled houses mount the slopes between the picturesque
harbor and the castle, some standing defensively with
their rear walls to the sea....
Petra
Lesvos is beginning to sprawl behind its broad, sandy
beach and seafront square with a core of old stone houses,
many with Levantine-style balconies overhanging the
streets. Petra takes its name from the giant monolith
located some distance inland and capped by the eighteenth-century
church of Panagia Glykofiloussa...
Skala
Eressos (Eresos)
is one of the most appreciated resorts for international
tourism and the favorite spot of families, young people
as well as gay women that create the beautiful diversity
of Eressos (Eresos) in Lesvos island...
Kalloni
itself is an agricultural and market town more or less
in the middle of the island, 41Km from Mytilini. You
may pause here since it’s the intersection of
most bus routes and has plenty of shops, including pharmacies
and three banks...
Due
south of Mount Olympos and perched on the edge of the
fan, Plomari is the only sizeable coastal
settlement in the south, and indeed the second largest
town on Lesvos. It presents an unlikely juxtaposition
of scenic appeal and its famous ouzo
distilling industry...
Vatera
is 55Km in total from Mytilini. The 7Km long, sandy
beach here, backed by vegetated hills and looking out
to Hios and Psara, offers some of the warmest, cleanest
swimming on Lesvos. Several decent hotels and tavernas
with fresh fish and traditional tastes are across the
biggest beach on the island...
Polichnitos
is known for its hot springs, the hottest
in Europe (97C), you can boil your egg there like the
local women do. It is very healthy to take a few minutes
to submerge yourself in this holy water...
An
intriguing tableau of nineteenth-century bourgeois architecture,
with its central crossroads flanked by an inordinate
number of kafenia and shops Lesvos Agia Paraskevi.
The place is famed for its bull-festival
rite on Pentecost Saturday (seven weeks after Orthodox
Easter, usually June), a festival also accompanied by
horse racing...
Madamados
is In the north part of the island, an old fashioned
village with 1400 inhabitants.
This attractive inland village is famus for its pottery,
including the Ali-Baba-style Kioupia (olive-oile-urns)
seen through-out Lesvos, but also for the icon of Archangel
Michael...
Pyrgi
Thermi Lesvos
(tower-mansions) is a traditional village 13Km northeast
from Mytilini with a population of 1000 citizens. Set
within picturesque towers of the nineteeth-century gentry
and small cobbled streets...
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