Pyrgi
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The Verdict
A fortified village of tall houses covered in scratched geometric patterns — the strangest architecture in the Aegean.
Why go
Pyrgi is the biggest of the mastic villages, and the houses are covered in xysta: patterns scratched through black plaster to reveal the white lime beneath, so whole facades are worked in triangles, circles and diamonds. The village was built defensively, the houses joined in a ring around a central square, with the church of Agioi Apostoloi decorated inside in the same manner. It is fifteen minutes from the coast and the mastic groves surround it on all sides.
Understand the place
The largest of the mastic villages of southern Chios, its houses joined in a defensive ring and its facades covered in black and white patterns.
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