A sea band separates Lesvos from Asia. The predominant island of the Eastern Aegean, with the beautiful shores and the limpid sea, the olive tree forests that flirt with the waves, the ravines and the planes, the bucolic sights and the picturesque ports, the ouzo and the fresh fish.

An island loaded with history. From 1000 B.C. with the Aeolians ( vehement ) till 2000 A.C. with the Olympic Gold Medalist, Konstantinos Kenteris. Scattered throughout the island, one can find villages with traditional buildings, historic cities with monuments, museums and a wide range of cultural signs.

Civilization, a key word for the history of Lesvos. A civilization which spoke with wisdom, sang, wrote, painted, built and fell in love with beauty. "My love will gently flutter round you like a butterfly", writes Sappho who is in love. "You are the child of the stone and the frothy sea, a sea shell, which the children listen to mesmerized" notes Alkaeos around 600 B.C... "AXION ESTI (WORTHY IT IS), that little something that the sea gull releases with its touch and illuminates the pebbles like innocence.", adds Elytis, who will later on note, for Theophilos, that with the "first sense" he freezed the refined light that came from the foliage of the olive trees, that quintessential element that was always incommunicable. Helpful as they are, the craftsmen of Lesvos, offered stately and monumental public buildings, cobblestone pavements and traditional constructions, monasteries, castles and the small church of Panayia Gorgona ("Virgin Mary the mermaid"), which stands lonely on the top of a wet rock.