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Large islands and dozens of smaller ones
scattered about the north-eastern Aegean are Europe's sea border
with the East.
Precious jewels woven into the deep blue silk of the Aegean, are a valuable inheritance
with a long and rich history: Agios Efstratios - Chios - Fourni - Ikaria - Lesvos
- Limnos - Psara and Samos.
Less touristy than the Cyclades and Dodecanese, these islands are larger, greener
and in many cases more interesting culturally and historically.In ancient times,
according to myth, Limnos, a volcanic island, was the home of the god Hephaistos
and his most important place of worship.
The island's history is long; two of its cities, Mirina and Hephaistia, were
extremely prosperous during antiquity.
Chios, south of Limnos, claims to be the birthplace of Homer. Its landscape is
very varied and its main crop is mastic, the "chew in chewing gum",
produced by trees that grow nowhere else in the world.
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Lesvos, Greece's third largest island, has a long history and varied,
fascinating scenery. The birthplace of the illustrious ancient poets
Sappho and Alkaios, the guitarist Arion, the musician Terpander and
Pittakos of Mitilini, one of the Seven Sages of antiquity, it even
today continues the tradition of producing famous artists, poets
and writers.
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