Dafnonas is a beautiful and picturesque colonizing located at about 9 km from the city of Chios. This village took its name from the dafnes (“laurels”) and it is located on the slopes of mount "Kakia Skala", from where it watches all the Kambochora, the Kambos, the sea and the coast of Ionia (Asia Minor) across the Aegean. According to the tradition, the village comes from an old colonizing at Petrana, at Kanavoutsata, or at Lavrina, which was transferred at its present location the end of the 10th and the beginning of the 11th century.
Aghios Panteleimon is the favored Saint of the village, the temple of whom is at the entrance of the village with a wonderful stone bell tower, built in 1990. There is also a church dedicated to Aghios Georgios', an ancient and parish temple, which has been repaired and renewed recently.
Around the village there are many other places that are worth a visit, such as Kanavoutsato, Stratigato or Vestarchato, where there is plenty of Medieval and older Greek material. Besides, these towns also show the marks the Genoese leadership left in the area, like the ruined castle in the center of the village or the tower in Lavrina, among others.
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