Kontias

Kontias
  • Kontias

It' s here

After beautiful Nevgatis, the road leads to the picturesque great village Kontias, capital of the Municipality of Nea Koutali, which is one of the most beautiful in Greece.

It is built over the wooded hill of Saint Athanasios with perennial pine-trees and it has to show wonderful houses of urban architecture-stone or plaster-, mainly its oldest part, which preserves solid its traditional color, with marble stairs, marvelous wooden doors, sweet-smelling gardens and great balconies. The road at the entrance to the village, which is decorated with an exquisite line of gigantic plane-trees (these were planted along the road in 1912 for reminding the liberation of the island from Turks), leads to the next village, Tsimantria.

The traces of a prehistoric settlement, but also Vryokastro, a medieval castle, fill the bill for you who want to discover the historical past of this place.

  • Αγκαρυώνες, Καλλιθέα

    An exceptional panoramic view of the village, as it is built on a hill.
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  • Portianou

    A picturesque village with stone mansions. The visit to its folklore museum, where you have a taste of the area’s civilization, is necessary.
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  • Tsimantria

    Tsimantria – Kalliopi – Lychna

    After Diapori, you meet the village of Kechagiades Tsimantria –from where comes the gallant dance of Lemnos. The entrance of the village will impress you, because it constitutes a great road of about one kilometer, which is planted with towering trees on both sides.
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  • Diapori

    Diapori

    If after Kontias you turn right, before ECO petrol station, you will meet an earth-road. You will pass from fields, where there are tasteful detached houses, and you will arrive at a natural, leeward and safe for great ships, port of Diapori.
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  • Peninsula of Fakos

    Fakos

    It’s time for some new experiences, while the ecological routes in Fakos and Saint Efthymia start from Diapori. A natural narrow canal between the bay of Moudros and Diapori leads to the peninsula of Fakos, with many chapels.
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  • Livadochori

    Kallithea – Livadochori

    Kallithea is built on the slope of a small hill, very close to the sea of Moudros and has a panoramic view. The first mutual teaching school of the island functioned here, in 1868.
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  • Palio Pedino – Neo Pedino

    Another one beautiful, but abandoned (since the earthquake of 1968) stone village. In recent years, some enthusiasts restore the ruins, in order to remake it the most beautiful of the island.
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  • Small port of Kontias – Megali Paranisia

    Just before you leave the central road for Diapori, turn right and you arrive at the picturesque small port of Kontias. If you choose the earth-road, the lake accompanies you all along the route, while your glance is lost in the sea and bay of Diapori.
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