Kampos

Just south of Chios Town lies a plain of citrus orchards, criss-crossed by narrow lanes between high walls of honey-coloured stone. Behind the gates are the mansions the Genoese lords and the merchant families of Chios built from the 14th to the 19th centuries, each with its courtyard, its marble cistern and its old waterwheel, the manganos, once turned by a donkey. Several have been restored as small hotels, so you can sleep among the orange trees and wake to their scent in spring.