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Extract from the Myrina Travel Guides:
MYRINA
(Kstro), the capital and port on the west coast, has the atmosphere of a provincial market town rather than of a resort. With about five thousand inhabitants, it's pleasantly low-key, if not especially picturesque, apart from a core neighbourhood of old stone houses dating from the Ottoman occupation, and the ornate Neoclassical mansions at Romeks Yials. Few explicitly Turkish monuments have survived, though a fountain at the harbour end of Kydha retains its calligraphic inscription and is still highly prized for its drinking water. Most other things of interest line Kydh/Karatz, the main shopping street stretching from the harbour to... read the whole Myrina Travel Guides...
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