Hotel Description

Medieval Castle is a complex consisting of 14 suites scattered inside Mesta, a medieval village on the island of Chios. Your stay in any of these suites will certainly be a memorable experience, combining all modern facilities with the experience of living in a village which has been lively and continually inhabited since the Middle Ages. So staying at the Medieval Castle you will be feeling as if you had be living in Middle Ages but without being deprived of modern amenities. Every suite a t the Medieval Castle has been well-cared to the smallest detail. All the houses in the village of Mesta have a similar architectural structure but each one is a separate unit adapted to the specific space. Each suite is unique but at the same time similar to the others. What all suites have in common is the excellent service.

Location

Mesta, is a perfectly preserved village-castle of the Byzantine period (14th and 15th centuries). It has been designated a listed monument and it is found 35 Km southwest of the town. The Castle-village, takes you back centuries, with its very few changes. It keeps its houses tied tightly together in what seems like a closed and compact form. The streets are cobbled and narrow. This type of fortress, a four-cornered structure, was built for protection against the frequent attacks by pirates and Turks, as well as for better cultivation of the mastic bush. It lies in small, treeless valleys far from the sea. The gray houses had doors and windows that faced only the interior of the wall, that is, inside the village. The outer walls contained adjoining parapets with small towers at the corners and gates at two or three points. At the center of every medieval village rises the defense tower, a form of Acropolis, where the inhabitants took refuge in the case of attack, using a movable bridge.  
The streets are narrow, stone-paved, and are connected to the central tower square. At frequent intervals there are transverse archways supporting the structures, as well as vaults and arches supporting the rooms. The functional character of the houses was geared to defense, and thus the inhabitants were able to move about the roofs without being seen. The four-sided shape of these houses, their thick structure, the defense system, the gray walls, the small areas for general use, and their relation to the treeless, natural surroundings, convince us that the medieval villages of Chios were built on a fixed plan which may have been imposed by the Genoese.
An excellent, worth visiting monument is the church of the Older Taxiarchi, a vaulted one-aisled basilica, that became two-aisled in 1794 with the wood carved iconostasis, a fine piece of Chian wood-sculpture.
Traditional feasts are organized many times through the year, besides the standard feast on Shrove Monday, when the traditional custom of Agas (a Turkish official) who burlesques the trials of the Turkish judges as they were done in the Turkish period, takes place. Other feasts are organized on the 15th of August and the 8th of November, which are religious holidays.
The harbor of Mesta is at a distance of 4 kilometers from the village.

Rooms

Each suite is unique but at the same time similar to the others. What all suites have in common is the excellent service. In addition to the carefully-chosen and comfortable furnishings, a telephone, a T.V. , a fax and if desired a computer and Internet are provided. You may have breakfast either in a small specifically designed room inside the building of reception or at the picturesque small restaurants on the village square, open during the day and night.

 

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If you cancell, up to 7 days before date of arrival, no fee will be charged.
If you cancell, 6-3 days before date of arrival, 50% of the total value of your reservation  will be charged.
If you cancel later, or in case of non-show, or in earlier departure than the programmed one,then the total price of the reservation will be charged.