The municipality comprises Madamados the seat and the villages Kapi, Kleio and Pelopi. Madamados is a large village, on the northeast of Lesvos, with basically rural population and particularly livestock-breeding products, honey, pottery and olive oil. The village is popular for its traditional architecture, the picturesque alleys and cobbled roads, the long tradition in arts and mainly in the art of pottery. Today, in the region of Madamados, nine workshops of pottery are still active, out of the sixty operating until the 50s. At the settlement of Agios Stefanos, three workshops preserve the old way of manufacture and produce objects of traditional type. 
The village is also famous for the monastery of Taxiashes, an icon of Archangel Michael is found in this monastery of the 17th century, which according to the tradition, is made of mud and blood of monks slaughtered during the Turkish raid. In Madamados is also worth visiting the multicultural centre, a restored old oil press, typical example of the factory buildings of the beginning of the 20th century.
In Pedi, Palios, Aspropotamos, at the harbor of Kapi, haven of Kapi and in Tsonia, haven of Kleio, there are small picturesque beaches suitable for swimming. In summer, there are taverns where you can enjoy fresh fish, special locally produced meat and cheese products. Kapi and Pelopi are two typical mountain villages with ground colors, while in Kleio you can admire the numerous big outstanding mansionsMonastery of Taxiarches at Mantamados.
Is situated at the north side of Mantamados, 36 km from Mytilene and it constitutes one of the most significant places of pilgrimage on the island. In the past, it functioned as men convent and is mentioned for the first time in an ecclesiastical document from 1661. The small church of the 17th century was replaced with a bigger one of the 18th century, in the place of which the present church was erected from top to bottom in 1879, following the architectural type of the three-aisled basilica.
The church of St Stephen (Agios Stephanos) is located in the eastern pert of the island, near the village Mantamados. It belongs to the type of aisle less cruciform churches and dates approximately in the late Byzantine years. It was initially roofed with a dome, which however had already collapsed when the traveller Newton visited the church in the mid-19th century. The roof was rebuilt by the local inhabitants, with the placing of wooden beams in the place of the dome and the covering with bricks. In the eastern side, three semicircle apses of the holy altar are discerned, while arches ornament the north and south wall.
