Varia is a beautiful, flat, suburb of Mytilene, which is 3.5km south of the city and near the airport of the island of Lesvos.
The lush environment has made it one of the most densely populated suburbs.
Walking the quiet streets will encounter old neoclassical buildings alternate harmony with the new buildings and chapels there since centuries to remind us that Varia was a bastion of Christianity and culture.
There are still old typical towers, where they passed their summers in the affluent years of Gatelouz.
It is beachfront and has several modern and neoclassical buildings and a small, picturesque harbor that serves the needs of professional and amateur fishermen in the area. The summer crowd overwhelms the beaches for swimming.
In Varia born most notorious, folk, self-taught painter Theofilos and there, in a large olive grove – Contribute Lesvios critic Paris, Stratis Eleftheriadis – Teriant are homonyms and Theofilos museums and contemporary art .
In the museum there are Theophilus and forth over eighty works by the artist and the museum of modern art’s many works of modern painters such as Matisse, Picasso, etc.