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In short, I say that as a city we are the school of Hellas

Thucydides · History of the Peloponnesian War

A shaded stone terrace opening onto a small infinity pool, with dry-stone walls, an outdoor shower and open blue sea beyond, a low rocky islet on the horizon

Luura Cliff Hangs 55 Artists Above Agia Eirini Bay

Vivium's first house took its first guests on 1 August 2026, with a collection gathered over close to two years against a brief drawn from Parian marble

1 September 2026

An architect's render of a stone-walled walkway under a timber pergola, candle stands along both walls, opening to the sea

A Word for Flow: ROÉE Opens Above a Private Cretan Cove

1 September 2026

Nafplio seen from the walls of Palamidi: the red-tiled roofs of the old town, large sailing yachts and motor yachts lying along the waterfront quay, the Bourtzi fortress on its islet and the Argolic Gulf beyond

MaritimeNafplio

A Harbour Under Palamidi: Nafplio Takes Its First Boats

Cubic whitewashed buildings with flat roofs stepping down a hillside toward the sea, divided by whitewashed rubble walls with blue and red timber gates, a headland and small islets on the horizon

Four Seasons Mykonos Is Built Like a Village

A rendering of a pale stone pavilion with a wide arched opening and a low pitched roof, standing above a cobbled court with a circular fountain, umbrella pines and cypresses framing a view across still water to the low fortress islet of Spinalonga

Rosewood Blue Palace Redraws an Elounda Landmark

An indoor pool set against a rough-cut stone wall, with loungers on a pale stone floor and a lit corridor beyond

WellnessMykonos

Oxygen, Cold and Stone: The Rock Spa Opens at Fouquet's Mykonos

A colonnaded restaurant terrace with tables laid, the low sun over the sea and an infinity pool beyond

GastronomySantorini

Three Houses, One Kitchen: Vaios Koukoumtzis Takes Charge in Oia

Low stone and whitewashed houses scattered through scrub above a sandy bay, with the open Aegean beyond

WellnessAntiparos

The Rooster Turns Inward: A House of Healing Rebuilt Around Longevity

A long indoor pool lit turquoise runs beside a split-face white stone wall, with cushioned loungers set behind sheer curtains along the opposite side of a concrete floor

A Word That Means Breath: ANASA Reopens at Patmos Aktis

Dining tables laid under a pergola on a stone terrace, above a curved swimming pool with the open sea and a low island beyond

GastronomyParos

Rome by Way of Ambelas: Luca Piscazzi Takes a Parian Kitchen

The shared pool of the EÉSO enclave at dusk, with timber-clad pavilions under flat canopies set into the water on either side and a lit bar at the far end.

EstatesHeraklion

Inside EÉSO by NEMA, an inward-facing enclave on Crete

A whitewashed cubic building above deep blue sea, with a private plunge pool and loungers on the terrace below it, palm fronds at the left and a settled shoreline across the water

Omeon Mykonos Reworks 38 Keys Above Agios Stefanos

An aerial view of a low stone-coloured resort spread across a green peninsula, rows of suites with small private pools stepping toward the water, and a curved cove of pale sand and clear turquoise sea below

AMOH Rhodes Opens Between Two Coves and a Quarry

The island's first Luxury Collection hotel puts a cut rock face at the centre of a 197-room resort near Lindos

An aerial view of Gouvia Bay on Corfu, a large marina packed with white yachts along parallel pontoons on the far shore, a wooded peninsula of villas and pools in the foreground, and a hillside town behind

The Gate Between Two Seas: Gouvia Rebuilt for Fifty Metres

D-Marin completed an €8.5 million redevelopment of Corfu’s marina on 27 April 2026 — 104 new berths, and a waterfront given over to walking

A circular marble bar ringed with red-upholstered stools, set beneath a shallow dome under a wrought-iron chandelier, on a floor laid in pale triangular mosaic

GastronomyAthens

Byzantino Returns: An Athenian Room Reopens as a Grande Brasserie

A stone colonnade beside a long narrow pool, with an olive tree, a cypress and the sea beyond a low ridge in late afternoon light

WellnessPorto Heli

The Method Without the Man: Amanzoe Takes On the Mobility & Recovery Programme

A dining terrace at dusk above the sea, white-clothed tables and low sofas beside an infinity pool, a lit stone-pillared bar to one side and the lights of a hillside town across the water

GastronomyMykonos

Fire, and Little Else: YĒVO Returns to Megali Ammos

The white superyacht Emerald Kaia at anchor on calm blue water, her name lettered on the bow, a black tender alongside her lowered platform and a long mountainous coast on the horizon behind

Nine Greek Calls in Eleven Days: Emerald Kaia Makes Her First Passage

Aerial view of a resort of low whitewashed cubic buildings stepping down a dry rocky hillside in tiers, with planted roof terraces, small private pools and a long curved swimming pool lined with loungers at its centre

EstatesSantorini

Sandblu Santorini Changes Flag, Not Footprint, for LXR

The yacht Four Seasons I under way on calm water at sunset, her white hull and dark glass funnel lit from the side, with a long mountainous coastline and low islands on the horizon behind her

Out of Athens, Into the Cyclades: Four Seasons I Opens Her First Greek Season

A curved stone-and-glass pavilion at the head of a long outdoor swimming pool, with cushioned loungers along one side and a wide blue bay and low hills beyond

A Season That Opens on a Measurement: Mandarin Oriental Turns Navarino Toward Longevity

A wide Milos bay seen from a hillside, pale scrub-covered headlands running down to turquoise shallows, with white houses scattered across the far shore under a clear sky

Eréma Milos Repeats One Pool Across 41 Suites

A rendering of the rebuilt marina at sunset, yachts moored along floating piers inside a breakwater, low wave-roofed buildings lining the quay and the Saronic Gulf beyond

MaritimeAthens Riviera

A Harbour Emptying by Design: Agios Kosmas Becomes The Ellinikon Marina

The lit dining room of a neoclassical pavilion, tables laid in white beneath warm alabaster lanterns, tall windows giving onto dark garden trees

GastronomyAthens

The Aigli Takes a New Name: Zappa Opens in the Zappeion Garden