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Villas, architecture, and private retreats

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

Nine rooms inside a restored 18th-century tower on the harbour at Limeni, raised by the family whose flag opened the Greek revolution at Areopoli on 17 March 1821.

A render of a long hillside above a calm bay, with low terraced buildings stepped into the slope among scrub and olive, a rocky shore and a jetty below them, and open blue water in the foreground

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Six Senses is building into the hillside of a private bay at Porto Heli

A long dark pool and timber deck run beside a single-storey house in pale earthy render, with day beds, a pergola and a bare mountainous island across open sea

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Somanou, two houses and a stable above Ano Koufonisi

The stone tower at dusk, lit from within at the doorway, a crescent moon above it and olive trees moving in the wind on the slope below.

A Mani tower put back to work

Overhead aerial of two long concrete blocks on Kourouta Beach, two rust-red steel drums in the courtyard between them, a timber promenade along the sand and sunbeds beside the Ionian.

Eight rooms on the roofs of the wine tanks at Dexamenes

An aerial view of the villa's curving infinity pool on a planted terrace of stone and concrete, with Navarino Bay and its headlands beyond.

The one five-bedroom villa above Navarino Bay

A stone-paved arcade between the old market shopfronts, their doors and windows painted green, with olive trees in terracotta urns and a wrought-iron gate under the vault at the far end

The Old Markets: ten keys inside Symi’s listed Agora

Aerial view of a wide sand beach on Ano Koufonisi, shallow turquoise water filling the foreground and the whitewashed houses of the settlement rising on the dry slope behind

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The Taverna, a beachfront house of pool suites at Ammouda

The long low house held between two stone retaining walls in a saddle on a dry Antiparos hillside at dusk, its lit pool green against the slope, with Antiparos village, the channel and Paros beyond

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Aloni, the Antiparos house that disappears into its own hill

White cubic buildings and dry-stone terraces stepping down a bare slope to a deep blue bay, with the uninhabited islet of Nikouria across the water

The dry-stone walls came first: a 16-suite house on the bay of Nikouria

The hotel's rooftop terrace at sunset, rattan chairs and green cushions around low tables, with a stone neoclassical house, the open Aegean and distant islands beyond

Nine suites, nine marbles and a gallery in a Vaporia mansion

Marble-topped tables and wicker chairs on a lit terrace above the water at dusk, lanterns standing on the curved parapet and the hillside houses of Ermoupoli beyond

Boutique Hotel Ploes: eight rooms in a mansion built over the Syros sea

Low white volumes of the house running along one side of a long rectangular pool at dusk, grey umbrellas and loungers lined up on the paved edge, bare hillside and a pale sky beyond

A house at Mytakas where every suite has its own pool

Giorgos Tsolakis set the house into a steep west-facing plot at Mytakas in 2020, and the expansion his practice drew has taken it to 50 suites, every one with a pool of its own.

The stone-built suites and villas of Gundari spread along the clifftop in low evening light, their flat roofs stepping over the ground, with the open Aegean below and beyond

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The first luxury hotel on Folegandros, with its spa buried in the ground

Ricardo Larriera, an advertising executive from Sydney, bought farmland above the south-eastern cliffs in 2019 with Terry Seremetis, whose family came from the island, and gave all of it to the Athens studio Block722.

Rooftop terrace with low black seating on dark veined marble behind a glass balustrade, looking over the tiled roofs of Ermoupoli to the Aegean and two low islands.

The Vaporia mansion Grigorios Paikos built, restored over seven years

An aerial view of a low earth-toned house set into a bare hillside above a coast road, with small pools on its stepped roof terraces and the Aegean beyond.

The Amorgos house that puts its guest rooms inside the hill

White Cycladic buildings and dry-stone walls on a hillside, a lawn, a thatched parasol and a pool in the foreground, with olive fields, a low white coastal town and open sea beyond

Inside the Naxian Collection, a Naxos house that grows its own

A lit olive tree in a stone bed on a marble terrace, sun loungers and an infinity pool behind it, and beyond them the enclosed bay and two bare headlands under a pink dusk sky

The village built above Vourni

Aerial view of a crescent sand beach at the mouth of a green river valley on Andros, with a dirt road descending to it and a small white chapel on the headland

Onar: 18 cottages in a protected wetland, at the end of 10 km of dirt road

The mansion's street front on Omirou, white and honey-coloured stonework with green panelled doors and louvred shutters, potted olive trees along the pavement, the lane falling away to the right

A tailor’s son built it in 1874, and six rooms now hold its frescoes

Aerial view of the house on an Antiparos headland at sunset, two stone and white volumes set apart with a long dark water channel running down the slope between them to a stone-walled pavilion

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Peninsula, the Antiparos house Iasson Tsakonas kept for himself

Three whitewashed cubic volumes standing in a row on a dry Tinian hillside, dry grass in the foreground and a terraced hill scattered with white houses behind

Three villas sunk into the rock at Agios Fokas

Low villas of rough local stone stepping down a dry hillside above the sea at sunset, their flat roofs level with the scrub and a dirt path running between them

Seven stone villas above the fishing village of Skinopi

Architect's visualisation of a curved white terrace along an infinity pool, with a dry-stone wall and arched openings on one side and a flat white volume above the sea

The Eye, the Amorgos house that takes its white volume from Chozoviotissa