A major part of the town preserves its authentic style with many buildings of traditional architecture, stone paved streets, beautiful market street and several old churches. Just below the Castle of Myrina, the picturesque harbour and the Romeikos Gialos esplanade with the neoclassical houses monopolise the day and nightlife of the town. The Archaeological and Ecclesiastical Museums are also located there.

Along the seaside the neoclassical houses of the Limnian aristocracy are located. They were built during the second half of the 19^th Century, by the descendants of the Limnians who left the island for Egypt in order to save themselves from the Turks after the failed attempt by A.Orlof to liberate the island. The houses are referred to as "the result of Egyptian remittances and European eclecticism". Romeikos Gialos lived its greatest glory on the 8^th of October 1912, when the flagship of the Greek Fleet " Averof" reached here to raise the Greek Flag at the castle and declare Limnos as part of the Greek State once more.

From Romeikos Gialos you can see the small Cape of Petassos, well known in Mythology as the place related to the conjugal misfortunes of God Hephaestos. Aphrodite, the goddess of beauty and love was married to him against her will. This was an unfortunate match since Hephaestos was lame and ugly. She quickly found solace in the arms of Aries, the god of male masculinity and war. None would have been any the worse for it if the Limnian women didn’t make it their business to inform Hephaestos of Aphrodite’s infidelities. So Aphrodite decided to punish them, by making them smell very bad, thus sexually unattractive to their husbands. The Limnian men solved the problem of sexual draught by bringing mistresses from Thrace to console them. However the wives could not tolerate such an indiscretion. They intoxicated their husbands with the famous Limnian wine and threw them into the sea from the cape of Petassos to drawn. In Greek Petassos means a place from where you can throw off something. Not long afterwards Argo sailed to the island on its way to Troy. The Argonauts disembarked and since the women of the island were husbandless they found pleasurable occupation that delayed their departure. Soon enough children were born again and life at Limnos continued as normal. To commemorate that shocking crime, the village that was later build there was called Androphonion (meaning the murder of men). Today it has the more acceptable name of Androni.

To the north east of Androni the present day village of Kornos is considered to be a very old (1361) and once prosperous village. It is not a coincidence that many of the owners of the houses at Romeikos Gialos, descend from Kornos. These days in collaboration with the Municipality of Myrina the village manages the thermal springs of the area, called Therma, which have been in use since the antiquity and are said to have therapeutic properties.

To the south after the villages of Thanos you can visit the village of Kondias, which with its traditional stone houses and windmills is undoubtedly the prettiest village of Limnos. Visiting the adjoining village of Tsimandra (the first Limnian village to be liberated in 1912) with the beautiful square and tradition of folk dancing and music is also a pleasure.

After that you come upon the village of Portianou where the Alliance Forces had encamped in 1915. Winston Churchill had made the village his headquarters while conducting the campaigns of the Allied Forces at Gallipoli. The house where he used to live was recently renovated. The cemetery of those killed at Gallipoli is located outside Portianou.

351 refugees created the village of Nea Koutali nearby, in 1926, when they arrived from the little island of Koutali at Propondida. Today it is a lively, seaside village with a tradition in sponge fishing. A few kilometres away is the village of Kallithea build on a hillside with an impressive view of the Gulf of Moudros.

The village of Moudros (at the opposite coast of the Gulf) owes its importance to its port. It’s one of the best natural ports of the Mediterranean, if not the best. The Gulf of Moudros protected from the northern winds and the streams coming from Dardanelle is navigable even by large ships. During 1914 – 1916 it served as anchorage for about 500 ships and as much as 30.000 soldiers of the Alliance Forces camped here. Outside of Moudros, on the road to Romanou the second cemetery of the Alliance Forces is located.

At the centre of the island, north of Nea Koutali the village of Livadochori has been build in the middle of a fertile plan. The large village of Atsiki is known for its church and the stone bell tower. The villages of Varos and Lichna oversee the large and new airport of the island.

The nearby village of Romanou was once famous for its stone – grey black granite – from which most of the islands residences were built and its stonemasons who demonstrated beautifully their craft on the two churches and the fountain of the village. Entering the village of Repanidi it is interesting to see the stone carved vessels that were used for storing wine and grain.