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Modern Description: At 22 km from Chora, the main road descends into the *valley of Kardámyla, one of the island's most attractive corners with a long and little-explored history. Apart from the references to ‘Koila' and ‘Kardamyle' in Herodotus and Thucydides, there is epigraphic evidence of the cult of Zeus Patröos in a forested grove on Mt. Pelinnaíon above the town, as well as of Dionysos Actaios, of Aphrodite Kytheria, and of Poseidon, in other parts of the territory at places yet to be pinpointed with precision. On a steep eminence directly to the south, stand the remains of the 15th century Grías Castle – essentially a small fortress, consisting of two towers of slightly differing form, linked by curtain walls and built over the site of earlier Hellenistic fortifications (accessible by foot in 45 minutes from Ano Kardámyla by signed footpaths).
Recent settlement in the area is split between two nuclei – the picturesque hillside village of Ano Kardámyla above, and the administrative centre of Mármaro below, which clusters the around the coastal inlet to the northeast: between the two stretches the fertile ‘kambos', fed by the waters that descend from Mt Pelinnaíon through the upper village and into the valley. Kardámyla is predominantly mediaeval in character; from the attractive plateia, shaded by huge plane-trees, the steep, narrow streets of stone houses rise to the area of Spiliá which was the original settlement here.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardamyle_(Chios)
Wikidata ID: Q62921868

Info: McGilchrist's Greek Islands

(From McGilchrist’s Greek Islands, © Nigel McGilchrist 2010, excerpted with his gracious permission. Click for the books)

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