On Shrove Monday at the central square of the village it takes place the custom of Aga. Its origins are dated back in the years of the Turkish domination. Aga Sakiz Emin was a Turkish Pasha who was the governor of the Mastic Villages and kept under his strict rule the monopoly of mastic trade enforcing his own law followed by hard sentences for the villagers who adopted illegal practices during the production and trade of mastic. Each autumn along with his assistants traveled to all of the mastic villages and took for the Sultan half of the production, while he bought the other half for himself at a very low price in order to selling it later at high prices increasing significantly his profits. After the Turkish domination the umbrage of the villagers was so great that led them to satirize their misfortunes, putting their suffering into songs, and establish the custom “Aga of Mesta”. So on Shrove Monday morning a local disguises himself as Aga and begins to judge mockingly locals and guests. Aga surrounded by his retinue (properly disguised men) arrives at the village square in order to sit in judgment with exceptional magnificence, afterwards dance with traditional instruments, food and drink follows.