Kallithea

Kallithea is located at the westernmost tip of Samos. The village’s name used to be Prinias (from the many prina, meaning kermes oaks that were in the area) and along with the village Drakaioi constituted the municipality of Kalabaktasion, so called Kalabaktasi. The words “kale buck tasi” are Turkish and mean ‘rock used by for surveillance’.

The marriages that took place in this village in the old times were very unusual (as in Drakaioi), since the bride was stealing the groom in the middle of the night and spending together two or three days in the caves of mountain Kerkis or in the woods. After that, the couple returned to each home and made the official wedding.

Kallithea is famed for the sunset, especially in summer. The inhabitants engaged in agriculture, mainly olives and livestock. In the old times there was a significant production of charcoal. Dirty roads lead to the beach of Agios Isidoros in a natural cove.
In Agios Isidoros exists the last famous shipyard of the well-known all around the Aegean Sea, wooden boat and caiques of Samos.
Also a dirt road leads to the mountain, at a site called Askitaria at an altitude above 700 meters. The name is due to the fact that there are many chapels, other built-in and other in caves where hermits and monks lived in old times. The area has dense vegetation and nice views.

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