Agiasos is a small town and a former municipality on the island of Lesvos, North Aegean, Greece. It is built amphitheatrically at the eastern slopes of Mount Olympus (968m), at a height of 475 meters (1,558 ft), 26 kilometers (16 mi) from Mytilene. It is surrounded by arable land, olive groves, forests and steep, bike and hiking trail paths and it has a total land area of 79.900 Klm2. There are two entrances to the village, the main and the upper through the ring road called “Kampoudi“. The name of Agiasos. Agiasos was named after from the inscription on the icon of the Virgin Mary “Μήτηρ Θεού Αγία Σιών” (“Mother of God Saint Sion”) that the monk Agathon brought from Jerusalem at 803 BC after the Byzantine Iconoclasm at the 9th century AD. Agia Sion (Saint Sion) the icon, Agia Sion the monastery. Believers who would go for pilgrimage would say: “Let’s go to Agia Sion” or “Go to AgiaSon” and the causal “Agiason” became also “Agiasos”. The development of the settlement. Around 1700 Agiasos was a small settlement with about forty houses around the monastery and the church of Panagia (Holy Mary). In 1701 the Turkish governor of the region is seriously ill and attributes his salvation to the miracle of the Virgin Mary, after recovering from a visit by the elders of the village, who bring him some “healers” from the church (Holy Water from Zoodochos Pigi, etc.). In gratitude he wanted to make a great gift to the Church of Panagia, but this was forbidden by the Koran. So he went to the Constantinople and requested from the Sultan an order, by which the inhabitants of Agiasos were exempted from paying taxes not only in the Ottoman state but also in the Elders of Mytilene. This will mean the steep development of the village. The inhabitants of the surrounding villages and most of the Lesbian craftsmen massively relocate to Agiasos in order to get rid of the onerous taxation and to sell duty free products. The village thus becomes a famous center of craftsmanship. In 1729 it was composed of five hundred households. The order was abolished in 1783, but the development of Agiasos was now guaranteed and well-known. How about now? Today, with exceptionally lush vegetation, traditional architecture, and inquisitive residents, Agiasos is a listed preserved artistic and religious settlement with a characteristic dialect and a cultural atmosphere that visitors are sure to find interesting. The village itself is a completely traditional village with narrow stone streets (traditionally preserved) and picturesque lanes. Many of the houses have projecting upper floors known as “sachnosinia”  with wooden balconies decorated with flower pots of begonias, carnations, geraniums and other ornamental plants with a rich cultural heritage and religious inhabitants while its most important attraction is the Byzantine church of Panagia Agiasos (Saint Mary of Zion), built in 1170 at the heart of the small town of Lesvos.