These villages have been added in representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity of UNESCO.

[6] A kind of white dirt found near Pyrgi[7] was famed as an astringent and cosmetic since antiquity as "Chian earth" (Latin: Chia terra;[8] Greek: πηλομαιοτικο, pēlomaiotiko).

[7] Extracted around May each year,[7] it was considered less valuable than the similar medicinal earth produced by Lemnos given that the Limnian earth was considered protective against venoms and poisons[7] but nonetheless reputed to be "the greatest of all cosmetics... giv[ing] a whiteness and smoothness to the skin and prevent[ing] wrinkles beyond any of the other substances that have been celebrated for the same purposes.

It gathered population from different villages, whose residents settled in Pyrgi to avoid the pirates' raids.

The village didn't suffer damage from the earthquake of 1881 and so it keeps the medieval style.