Sigri (village)

Sigri, near the western tip of Lesvos, has an appropriately and-of-the-line feel, a small fishing village with a bay granted by a small castle and the long island of Nissiopi, which stretches across its mouth and acts as a buffer to the prevailing winds. The eighteenth-century Ottoman castle spots a tugra (the sultan’s monogram) over its entrance. One of the reasons you must visit Sigri is Natural history Museum of Lesvos with a great showroom with petrified founds from the Petrified forest and all around Lesvos. The nearest of several beaches, south of the castle headland, is somewhat narrow and backed by a little-used road to Eressos, the far superior one of Faneromeni lies 3Km north by a coastal dirt track from the northern outskirts of town. This beach is long and scenic, but you will need a 4wheel drive vehicle to reach it. A sorter but equally good strand, Limena, can found 2Km south of Sigri at another creek mouth, just off the rough one-lane.