Chios  is a Greek island in the Aegean Sea 5 miles off the Turkish coasts.
Attractions

• Nea Moni is a monastery with fine frescoes from Constantine IX's reign and a World Heritage Site.

The Korai Library, in Chios, is one of the most important in Greece, containing 95,000 volumes.
Chios Museum of Byzantine and Post-Byzantine Art,
Chios Archaeological Museum,
The town of Vrontados is home to a unique Easter celebration, where competing teams of locals gather at the town's two (rival) churches to fire tens of thousands of homemade rockets at the other church's bell tower while the Easter service is going on inside the churches, in what has become known as rouketopolemos ("the Easter church war").