Estates

Villas, architecture, and private retreats

A room terrace framed between two black rope chairs, a small round table between them, an infinity pool at the edge and the open Aegean beyond, with an araucaria and a bare headland to the right.

Every room at Utopia faces the sea

One of the Daktylides family’s houses on the Elia hillside, built after the Royal and the Imperial and before Avaton and Panoptis Escape: 64 rooms and suites in whitewashed blocks, every one facing the Aegean.

A villa terrace under a dried-palm canopy, with a rectangular infinity pool, a long timber table and chairs, and the blue water of Elia Bay with a whitewashed chapel and a headland beyond

The villas above Elia Bay

Beach at Ayios Yiannis seen from above, a whitewashed chapel with a red dome at left, thatched umbrellas in rows on the sand, and Delos on the horizon

Mykonos Grand, the five acres at Ayios Yiannis with Delos in front

Round pool on a white terrace cut into the caldera cliff, sail shades and rows of parasols beside it, three catamarans anchored on deep blue water below and the volcano islets on the horizon

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The beige house at the quiet end of Oia

View from a shaded pergola terrace over a private pool to the white suite blocks below, the dry hillside and the bay of Kalo Livadi beyond

NOMAD Mykonos, the 14-suite house where the yard is the larger room

The estate seen over oleander and young palms, its low sand-coloured blocks set around a wide pool, with terraced hillside and a hilltop village behind

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At Mesaria, a Santorini estate built around a pool and a collection

Whitewashed buildings of Santa Marina stepping down a hillside above Ornos Bay, seen across turquoise water, with a sand beach, rows of parasols and a stone beacon on the breakwater below

Santa Marina: the Mykonos hillside that was a house first

A terraced white house on a pale pumice bluff above the sea at dusk, its long pool lined with sun loungers and a dining terrace above, the caldera opposite

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The old stone mine above Ammoudi Bay

A rectangular infinity pool and four black canopied daybeds on a sand-coloured terrace, with low flowering shrubs and the sea and a distant headland beyond

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Six neighbourhoods on the slope below Oia

The caldera rim at Imerovigli, with Skaros Rock on the headland, white terraces at the cliff edge on the right and the Aegean below

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Three villas cut out of the caldera rim at Imerovigli

The hotel's stone tower lit at dusk above a flagstone terrace, with a plunge pool, olive trees and an arched passage holding a wooden staircase.

A Niklian tower at Koita, and the cellar inside it

A curved two-storey hotel range lit from within at dusk, standing behind a large freeform pool, with palms, lawn and a far mountain ridge beyond

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Elysian Luxury Hotel & Spa, 22 private pools in Kalamata

Grand Hotel Kalamata lit at dusk on the Kalamata waterfront, seen across the harbour with yachts and fishing boats moored at the quay and hills rising behind the city

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Grand Hotel Kalamata, on the footprint of the Hotel America

The Hotel America operated on this quay from 1929. On its site stand 23 rooms and suites, a spa that opened in July 2026 and a rooftop bar above the Messinian Gulf.

Aerial view of the pebbled shore at Grecotel Filoxenia Kalamata, with parasols and loungers on the beach, two pools and the main building behind, and wooded hills rising beyond

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The three lives of Filoxenia Kalamata

An open-air cinema, then a 44-bed state Xenia, then a 600-bed resort: the same shore at Kalamata has carried all three, and two renovation phases costing 20 million euros have left it with 95 rooms and 67 suites.

Aerial view at sunset over olive groves and cut fields on the hillsides above Kilada, with the village, its marina and the bay beyond, and wind turbines along the ridge behind

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A Nicklaus course above a fishing village, and the estate rising around it

The estate on its hillside above olive groves and vineyards at sunset, with the fortified rock of Monemvasia on the bay beyond

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Kinsterna, the Monemvasia estate brought back by hand

A rectangular pool in front of a low white building with arched openings, a white timber pergola over its terrace, parasols, timber sunloungers and olive trees behind.

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Ano Koufonisi’s 55-room hotel is going to five stars

Two-storey stone buildings and a square stone tower standing at the water's edge of a turquoise bay, with a bare limestone cliff rising behind them

Kyrimai Hotel, the trading compound at Gerolimenas port

A low white and stone hotel of two and three storeys stands behind a line of palms above a sandy shore, with flat calm sea and a mountain range on the far horizon

Lango Design Hotel & Spa: 54 adults-only rooms on Lambi beach at Kos

Low curved houses with planted roofs stepped down a scrub hillside at dusk, cypresses and olive trees between them, wooded hills fading into haze behind

A licensed name on the slopes above Navarino Bay

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The house at Káto Vérga that was turned west

Aerial view of the Monemvasia rock, with the walled Lower Town of terracotta roofs on its seaward slope beneath bare cliffs, surrounded by deep blue sea

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A house of three suites inside the walls of Monemvasia

A long rectangular pool at low sun, flanked by timber decking and grey daybeds under thatched parasols, with an open thatch-roofed bar pavilion and a date palm beyond

OKU Kos: an adults-only village of cubist houses on its own beach

The restored stone tower and the buildings around it standing on the rocky edge of Limeni harbour, clear green water in the foreground and stone houses climbing the hillside behind.

The Mavromichalis tower above the water at Limeni