Useful Links

The Island

www.lesvos.gr/nomos/lesvos_tourist_guide
This section of the Prefecture of Lesvos (the regional government) website
is the nearest thing to an online guidebook to the island,
with lavishly illustrated sections on its history, folklore,
notable buildings (with the emphasis on monasteries), flora and fauna,
 local food and drink, and sightseeing routes.

www.lesvos-travel.com
 An interesting general site about Lesvos for both holiday and business travellers,
 As well as sections on the island's history and attractions, it is a main source of links
 to accommodation, restaurant, car-hire, shopping and other business sites.

www.molivos.net
The official website of the Municipality of Mithimna (the original and correct name
 for Molivos). From the same designers as lesvos-travel, and with most of the same links,
but with emphasis on the unique history and attractions of Molivos.

www.petra.gr
Another official site, in Greek and English, covering the wide area of the
 Municipality of Petra from Ypsilometopo to Skoutaros,
in addition to the resorts of Petra and Anaxos.
The Greek menu includes a download of local music.

  www.lesvosisland.com  
 A personal site from Jeff Paffett, a recently settled English émigré
and professional website software designer.
Full of interesting and useful information and pictures based on
the personal experiences and preferences of him and his wife,
both longtime lovers of Lesvos.

www.lesvosvacations.com
Melinda and Theo are famous for their harbour-side fish restaurant in Molivos,
 'The Captain's Table'. They have now added self-catering accommodation high up
 in the town at 'The Captain's View House'.
 This new site is mainly designed to publicise their two enterprises,
 but includes pages of information by Melinda on Molivos and the island in general.

www.lesvos.com
   by Matt Barrett.
Matt Barrett is a USA based travel agent specialising in Greece.
He is responsible for a vast range of Greek-oriented sites,
of which this is the Lesvos outpost.
Opinionated, interesting, and reasonably reliable in its judgments,
given that this is essentially a commercial site. 

www.sapphotravel.com
Another commercial site. Sappho Travel is an agency, primarily for women,
based in Skala Eressou in the far west of Lesvos.
The website contains a wide range of useful information
on travel throughout the island.

www.lesvosonline.gr
Wide ranging site with photos, navigable maps, and separate sections on the history,
geography, economy, folklore, etc. of the island.

 General

www.wildlifeonlesvos.org
The Lesvos Wildlife Hospital at Agia Paraskevi, near Kalloni, together with the
Lesvos Animal Welfare Society (www.lesvos-animal-ws.ndo.co.uk) are voluntary
organisations caring for wild, stray, and feral animals on the island. The hospital
welcomes visitors and both welcome donations (see the websites for details)

www.culture.gr
The website of the Greek Ministry of Culture.
Its size does not make it easy to navigate and much is still under construction: try
clicking on the thumbnail map on the home-page and then on Lesvos on the resulting map.
Then select the icons on the map of Lesvos for information on some (by no means all)
of the island's ancient sites.
Elsewhere on the site, among much else, is a summary of the (unanswerable?)
Greek case for the return of the Parthenon (Elgin) Marbles to Athens
 from their present home in the British Museum.

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