Qualla: Volissos https://qualla.com/volissos en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 27 Jul 2026 10:40:38 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/f/6/volissos-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Volissos https://qualla.com/volissos Volissos: Introduction https://qualla.com/volissos/ Photo credit Pitropakis, CC BY-SA 3.0. At the entrance to Volissos, a marble plate carries lines in ancient Greek making a bold claim: that Homer lived in this hill village and composed his epics here. The source is no local boast but Herodotus, who long ago named Volissos among the places that shaped the poet. Whether or not the blind bard ever climbed these slopes, the village wears the claim proudly, an amphitheater of stone houses tumbling down a hillside in the remote northwest of Chios, far from the crowds and the ferries.

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/f/6/volissos-wp/swf6-volissos-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Volissos: The Castle on the Hill https://qualla.com/volissos/ Photo credit Katsiaryna Naliuka, CC BY-SA 3.0. Crowning the village is a castle, trapezoid in plan, with six round towers anchoring its corners. Its foundations are Byzantine, but the fortress took its final shape in the fifteenth century when the Genoese, who then held Chios for its mastic and its trade, rebuilt it to guard ...

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/f/6/volissos-wp/swf6-volissos-the-castle-on-the-hill.mp3 0:06 2 full Volissos: A Village Holding On https://qualla.com/volissos/ Photo credit Balkanique, CC BY-SA 4.0. Volissos is the largest village in northwest Chios, yet it has been emptying for decades. Since the 1950s, the young have left for Chios Town and for Athens, drawn by schools and work the village could not offer; its single school now serves as both primary and secondary for the ...

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/f/6/volissos-wp/swf6-volissos-a-village-holding-on.mp3 0:06 3 full Volissos: The Saint and Her Festival https://qualla.com/volissos/ Photo credit Pitropakis, CC BY-SA 3.0. Volissos is honored as the birthplace of Saint Markella of Chios, the island's patron, whose monastery stands on the shore at Agia Markella below the village. Each 22 July, thousands of pilgrims pour in from across Chios and beyond to mark her feast, and holy water is said to spr...

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/f/6/volissos-wp/swf6-volissos-the-saint-and-her-festival.mp3 0:06 4 full Volissos: Mountains and Shore https://qualla.com/volissos/ Photo credit Pitropakis, CC BY-SA 3.0. Behind the village rise the highest mountains on Chios, crowned by Pellinaion at 1,297 meters. Below, about a kilometer and a half from the houses, lies Limia, the little port that links Volissos by sea to the island of Psara across the water. The coast here is generous with beac...

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