Step back in time when you stay at this unique and historic place. Mesta was built during the byzantine era, later though, the Genoese have had improved it's fortification, to deal with the upraising numbers of pirate raids. The settlement is characterized by it's closed quadrilateral shape and it's labyrinth type of arrangement. It is one of the mastic villages of Chios still inhabited and one of the best preserved and most beautiful fortified settlements in Greece.