Estates

Villas, architecture, and private retreats

Sani Dunes from the air at dusk, a lit turquoise lagoon pool winding between flat-roofed low-rise blocks with planted roofs, the Aegean and the wooded Sani headland and its tower beyond.

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Sani Dunes: the pool reaches every door

Opened at the end of June 2017 on the Kassandra shore, Sani Dunes holds 136 low-rise rooms and suites in two quarters, each set around its own pool, drawn by Nimand Architects of Thessaloniki.

The lit neoclassical facade of The Dolli at dusk, stone urns along its roof balustrade and a glazed rooftop pavilion behind them, with the Acropolis and the Parthenon rising over the houses of Plaka.

The Dolli at Acropolis: the mansion that came back

The outdoor pool seen from above, white fringed umbrellas and sun loungers along a brick terrace, dining tables set at one end, bougainvillea in flower across the foreground

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The Margi, the family house in the Vouliagmeni pines

Aerial view of low white suites set in rows among olive trees on a wooded slope, running down to a pebble beach lined with white umbrellas and loungers

A Corfu hotel where the olive trees drew the plan

A rectangular infinity pool on a timber deck, loungers along one side, with sand, tall dune grasses and the Ionian beyond as the sun drops to the horizon

The Romanos, the hotel Costa Navarino was tested on

Whitewashed suite blocks stepping down open ground above Oia, each terrace holding a dark plunge pool, pampas grass on the roofs and a bare volcanic hill behind

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The Andronis house that stepped back from the cliff

Andronis Boutique Hotel stepping down the Oia caldera cliff from above, whitewashed terraces, loungers under patterned parasols and two small pools over the dark volcanic rock and the sea

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Andronis Boutique Hotel: 24 suites on the Oia cliff

White cubic buildings on two levels behind a timber deck of cushioned loungers and palms, all reflected in the still water of the central pool

Behind Parasporos beach, a Santorini family’s first house on Paros

A long curving infinity pool running above a rocky cove, with striped loungers and white parasols along its stone-walled edge and a small jetty with two boats below

Forty keys above Kalafati, watered by three springs

An aerial view over Canaves Epitome: two large rectangular pools, rows of white vaulted villas with their own small pools, stone-walled gardens, and the open sea below the cliff edge

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The Canaves house that left the cliff

Candlelit tables laid on a cliff terrace at dusk, bougainvillea to one side, the white houses of Oia lit along the ridge above a dark caldera with yachts at anchor below

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The highest house in Oia, and its lift

Whitewashed terraces, a long blue pool and shaded daybeds stepping down the Oia cliff face above the caldera, with Thirasia and the open sea beyond

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Canaves Sunday: eight suites, cut into the cliff below Oia’s promenade

A long infinity pool with teak floating sunbeds runs along a clifftop terrace, the caldera water and its far rock wall filling the view beyond the pool's edge

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Where the caldera falls steepest

Cavo Tagoo Santorini has 13 suites at the north end of Imerovigli, on the highest ground of the crater rim. Liakos and Associates Architects finished the renovation in 2016, and Roka holds the restaurant address through the season.

A long pool with a curved white wall runs beside the sea at Naoussa, with white parasols, blue loungers, a palm, and fishing boats moored off a rocky headland

At Naoussa, a Luxury Collection house laid out as a village of 40 suites

The Paros house of Empiria Group opened at Naoussa in June 2022: 40 suites in stone buildings set as a village of pathways, with a pool that follows the curve of the bay.

Whitewashed cubic volumes with planted stone-walled roofs stepping down the hillside at Deos, the Aegean and a cruise ship in the bay beyond

Deos, the Myconian Collection’s house on the hill above Chora

Grace Hotel lit at dusk, its white terraces and plunge pools stepping down the Imerovigli cliff to a larger pool, with the caldera and the open sea beyond

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The house cut into the cliff at Imerovigli

Black volcanic stone wall at Istoria Beach with its arched timber doors standing open to the Perivolos shore, grey ceramic urns ranged along the wall and thatched umbrellas on the sand beyond.

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One house, two addresses: Istoria from Perivolos to Firostefani

Whitewashed terraces and arched doorways stepping down the Imerovigli cliff above the caldera, a small plunge pool and canopied daybeds below, cruise ships anchored off Nea Kameni

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The Imerovigli house that brought Koukoumavlos back to Santorini

White cubic buildings stepping down a Mykonos hillside at dusk, a long infinity pool below reflecting the lit terraces, with sun loungers and candles along a stone wall to the right

Katikies Mykonos, the Agios Ioannis house where Botrini’s cooks

The black volcanic-stone buildings of Kivotos Santorini stepping down the cliff at Imerovigli among the whitewashed houses of the village, with a rooftop pool and sun terrace above them

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The black house on a white island

A long swimming pool on a timber deck, white sun loungers and curved parasols beside it, an olive tree to the left and the bay beyond with moored yachts

Kove Mykonos, the 35-key house on the Ornos isthmus

An infinity pool on a marble terrace above a bay, a granite boulder rising at its right edge, the white village and a rocky headland beyond, a guest reclining on a lounger in the foreground

The house in the granite above Platis Gialos

White cubic buildings stepping down a bare rocky hillside at sunset, with a wind-shaped olive tree in the foreground, dry-stone retaining walls, a dark infinity pool and a slatted white pergola above

Myconian Avaton, the Daktylides house on the rock above Elia Beach

The Panoptis Escape estate on the ridge above Elia Bay, its white buildings and pools on bare brown hillside, with the long sand beach and turquoise shallows below.

Eighteen villas on the highest point of Elia