Pelopi

A mountain village at 396 m in the Mantamados district of the Municipality of Western Lesbos, with 301 permanent residents at the 2021 census; it was formerly called Gelia and had some 260 families in Ottoman times. Panos Dukakis, father of the 1988 US presidential candidate Michael Dukakis, was born here, as was the evolutionary biologist Eleftherios Zouros.

Season

All year round

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  Villages & views · North Lesbos

  Sykaminia and Skala Sykaminias

  4.1 km

• Museums · Sykaminia (north Lesbos)

  Folklore Museum of Sykaminia

  4.2 km

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  Villages & views · North-east Lesbos

  Mantamados

  5.0 km

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  Churches & monasteries · Mantamados (north-east Lesbos)

  Monastery of the Archangels (Taxiarches) at Mantamados

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  Villages & views · Mount Olympos (central-south Lesbos)

  Agiasos

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  Villages & views · West Lesbos

  Vatoussa

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  Villages & views · West Lesbos

  Antissa

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  Villages & views · West Lesbos

  Eresos and Skala Eressou

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