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Religious tourism is also popular in Lesvos and the sites are worth visiti ng anyhow and are located at some of the island’s most beautiful villages.

Visit the waterfalls of Man’ Katsa (near Mantamados), Pessa, Vatousa and Andissa. The island’s hot springs can be found at the villages of Eftalou, Loutropoli Thermi, Polichnitos and at Yera Bay.

The historic oil press, built in 1887 by Nikolaos Vranas (grandfather of the Nobel Prize winning poet Odysseas Elytis) in the area of Papados.

All about the procedure and secrets of soap production (also at Plomari).

Based in Plomari, it unfolds 150 years of tradition in making the famous ouzo Barbayannis.

Housed in the old communal oil-mill in Agia Paraskevi village, it shows all the stages of oil processing, plus the old machinery and equipment.

The first fully digital museum in Greece exhibits the renowned painter’s work via display and interaction digital systems. It is located at his birthplace, Hidira.

Located next to the Tériade Museum (at the area of Varia, Mytilini), it was founded by Tériade himself and displays the paintings of the famous local folk artist Theofilos Chatzimichail.

It exhibits the legacy of its establisher, the prominent art critic, publisher and native Str. Eleftheriadis, which became associated with works of the most important 20th c painters (Picasso, Matisse, Chagall, etc).

Housed in two buildings, it initiates the visitor to Lesvos’ history during ancient times.