Qualla: Lesvos https://qualla.com/lesvos en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 27 Jul 2026 10:40:38 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Lesvos https://qualla.com/lesvos Lesvos: Introduction https://qualla.com/lesvos/ The poet Odysseas Elytis, born here and later a Nobel laureate, said his island was shaped like a plane-tree leaf. Look at a map of Lesbos and you see what he meant: two seawater gulfs bite deep into the south coast through narrow openings, splitting the land into lobes around their still water. This is the northernmost of the East Aegean islands, close enough to Turkey that the mainland mountains stand on the horizon, and large enough that no single drive shows you all of it. The east is olive groves and pine; the far west is bare rock and low scrub. Between them lies an island that rewards the traveler willing to wander.

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/f/w/lesvos-wk/swfw-lesvos-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Lesvos: Getting In and Getting Around https://qualla.com/lesvos/ Most visitors arrive at Mytilene's airport, named for Elytis, about eight kilometers south of the capital. Olympic Air and Aegean fly daily from Athens, with regular links to Thessaloniki, Chios, Lemnos, and Crete, plus summer charters from abroad. By sea, ferries from Piraeus ta...

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/f/w/lesvos-wk/swfw-lesvos-getting-in-and-getting-around.mp3 0:06 2 full Lesvos: The Homeland of Ouzo https://qualla.com/lesvos/ Lesbos claims ouzo as its own, and the claim has weight. On the south coast, where the two gulfs open to the sea, sits Plomari, the spirit's spiritual home, ringed by distilleries whose names travel far beyond the island. Order it the local way, poured over ice until the clear li...

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/f/w/lesvos-wk/swfw-lesvos-the-homeland-of-ouzo.mp3 0:06 3 full Lesvos: Gulf Villages and Stone Towns https://qualla.com/lesvos/ The capital, Mytilene, layers its history in plain sight: a Genoese-era castle crowns the old upper port of Epano Skala, mansions line the airport road at Sourada, and the baroque church of Agios Therapon anchors the bustling market street of Ermou. To the north, Molyvos, the anc...

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/f/w/lesvos-wk/swfw-lesvos-gulf-villages-and-stone-towns.mp3 0:06 4 full Lesvos: Flamingos and a Forest of Stone https://qualla.com/lesvos/ The far west is a different island. Where the east is green with olive and pine, the rocky western tip hides one of Greece's strangest landscapes: a petrified forest, the trunks of ancient trees turned to stone by volcanic ash millions of years ago. The Natural History Museum nea...

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