This creation of the Mastic Producers Union of Chios looks more like a jewellers than anything else, but the valuable products it sells are all made using the therapeutic and invigorating resin of the mastic tree from the island of Chios, birthplace of Homer.
Chios' Mastic is a unique product, granted a PDO (protected destination of origin) from the European Union.
6 Panepistimiou Street & Kriezotou Street, Syntagma; tel: 210 363 2750;
Athens airport: Main Terminal/Departures/Intra Schengen Area
www.mastihashop.com
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mastic
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