Greece: 1 scheme to know about before you drive in.
Mithymna has one driving restriction on our books: the Κυκλοφοριακές ρυθμίσεις για την περιοδική πεζοδρόμηση της Παραδοσιακής… (limited traffic zone). What is a limited traffic zone?
Sources last read on 2026-09-23, from the authorities' own pages. The next scheduled check is 2026-12-22.
Mithymna — the town almost every visitor to Lesbos knows as Molyvos, the one with the Genoese castle above the cobbled lanes and the harbour below — closes three separate areas to traffic for four months of the summer, and they close on three different clocks.
From 1 June to 30 September: the **traditional market** from 11:00 in the morning until 02:00 at night; the **central road, Μιχαήλ Γούτου**, from 19:00 until 02:00; and the **harbour**, «για όλο το 24ωρο» — around the clock, for the whole season.
The rule is clause Β) of a decision of the Αποκεντρωμένη Διοίκηση Αιγαίου, signed at Piraeus on 18 July 2025 and gazetted on 28 July 2025, approving decision 91/2025 of the municipal council of Δήμος Δυτικής Λέσβου. 🔑 The harbour clause is the one to read twice.
It is not an evening restriction with a generous window; it is a four-month closure with no hours at all, and the act says so in words rather than by leaving the clock blank.
If you are driving to Molyvos in summer expecting to park on the quay, you cannot. 🔑 This gazette item carries three settlements of one municipality — Mithymna, Skala Kallonis and Vasilika — each its own record here. ⚠️ Two other things under the same clause are street furniture and are deliberately not part of this record: five bus bays, a set of Ρ-40 parking bans, a motorcycle bay and three disabled-parking places.