Holidays In Hotels In Chios, Greek Islands

Chios is a small Greek island located in Aegean Sea, at only 5 miles off the coasts of Turkey. It has been occupied by Persian, was part of the Delian League and of the Byzantine Empire, ruled by Genoa and later by the Ottoman Empire, and therefore there are rich historical vestiges from all ages.

Nowadays Chios belongs to the top Greek destinations for beach holidays. Because of the numerous people visiting yearly the island, in Chios are plenty of vacation resorts, hotels, and villas, all providing its guests excellent lodging amenities.

Holiday Attractions & Points Of Interest In Chios

Chios is today a well-known vacation place both in Greece and in the entire Europe, featuring several excellent hotels, rental properties and villas, majority of them lining tranquil beaches. Tourists find on the island all types of accommodations, from budget hotels up to luxury resorts. Most lodgings have facilities for water sports like yachting, sailing, scuba diving, snorkeling, water-skiing, parasailing, and others. The white-sand beaches are splendid, the weather is very good and the waters of Aegean Sea are warm and inviting, all these elements creating a superb vacation atmosphere for relaxing holidays. Because Chios is located very close to Turkey, many vacationers take day trips and sightseeing tours to the continent in order to admire more holiday attractions and points of interest.

In the ancient times Chios was the biggest wine exporter in Greece. Amphora from Chios, designed with a characteristic sphinx emblem, have been found in many countries where the ancient Greeks exported goods, including Gaul, upper Egypt and even eastern Russia.

Like many other Greek islands, Chios has been occupied by the Ottoman Empire in 1556 and enjoyed a relative peace, but in 1822 on the island took place a massacre after a rebellion of the Greek population - as result, around two weeks the Turk soldiers destroyed, burned an killed most of people! Chios joined to the independent Greece just after the First Balkan War, in 1912.

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