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Just as the earliest tinges of the dawn flushed the eastern sky and turned the pillared Parthenon to a broken harp hung in the pearly horizon

Mark Twain · The Innocents Abroad

Aerial view of a vineyard of low, widely spaced vines on volcanic ground, with pickers at work and a whitewashed village along the ridge beyond

GastronomySantorini

Kir-Yianni took a majority stake in Domaine Sigalas on Santorini

On 12 November 2025 the Naoussa wine estate Kir-Yianni acquired the majority of Domaine Sigalas at Oia, its first vineyards outside Macedonia

Architectural rendering of a low resort scattered among pines and cypresses on a wooded headland at Porto Heli, a stone breakwater curving out from the shore to enclose a shallow turquoise lagoon, with hazy hills running away along the coast beyond

EstatesPorto Heli

Waldorf Astoria Scarlet Bay, planned for Porto Heli in 2029

An aerial view of the Port of Corfu with the planned marina drawn over the water in translucent blue, an outer breakwater enclosing a basin of finger piers beside the existing quays

Corfu Mega Yachts Marina: 410 berths, up to 140 metres

Golden Yachts O'Ceanis: an 85-metre diesel-electric yacht at Perama

An aerial view over scrub hillside to the bay at Ermioni, the town on its low peninsula, and a marina of floating piers filled with yachts along the near shore

Ermioni marina: 256 berths for yachts of up to 60 metres

An aerial view of the dark-blue yacht Luminara lying at anchor on calm water below a steep cliff-backed coastal town, her tiered white terraces stepped along the hull and a floating platform extended at the stern

Luminara’s first Aegean season: eight ports in seven nights

Aerial view of Alimos Marina on the Attic coast, its jetties packed with white yachts inside a long breakwater, with the deep blue Saronic Gulf and distant hills beyond

MaritimeAthens Riviera

Alimos Marina: the permits behind a €100 million rebuild

A vaulted stone cellar with an arch of timber racks holding wine bottles across the curved wall, warm bulbs glowing at its centre above a bare stone floor

GastronomySantorini

Rizes Santorini: the wine cellar found beneath a building in Fira

The white tri-deck motor yacht O'Madeleine under way on open water, her name on the hull and a mountainous coastline behind

Golden Yachts O'Madeleine: a 60-metre yacht built at Perama

A curved pool with timber shade frames and daybeds on a gravel terrace, sand-coloured buildings stepping up a planted hillside to the right and open sea beyond

Tella Thera: 20 suites set into a Kissamos hillside

A sandy cove seen from the hillside above, rows of woven dome cabanas and thatched parasols set back from the water, a three-masted schooner anchored offshore in calm blue sea

Myconian Sunrise brought the Daktylides family one cove west of Elia

Whitewashed cubic buildings stepping down a hillside in tiers above a blue bay, dry-stone terrace walls and olive trees between them, sun loungers and a pool on the lowest terrace

Kalesma Mykonos grew above Ornos Bay in 2025

A flat-roofed pavilion carried on round columns over a shallow pool, standing at the edge of a clipped lawn with pines, agaves and a palm, and a ruined temple on a headland across the water

WellnessAthens Riviera

Elevations of Wellness: an Athenian osteopath’s programme at Cape Sounio

Vicky Vlachonis wrote a four-level programme for the Athens Riviera resort, launched in June 2025 in a spa rebuilt that year

Aerial view of long low buildings with planted roofs and rows of small pools stepping across a scrub-covered rocky headland, with two speedboats crossing the turquoise water below

JW Marriott Crete sets 160 rooms on more than 100 acres

The first JW Marriott in Greece opened at Marathi, near Chania, in June 2025. Block722 designed its buildings and rooms across more than 100 acres of coast

A long swimming pool in front of whitewashed cubic buildings on Paros, flanked by two tall Norfolk Island pines, with cream parasols, dark loungers and an arched doorway leading through to the hills beyond

Parīlio on Paros: a larger Elios Spa and 13 new villas and suites

A long indoor pool under a pitched glass roof, with sculpted stone loungers along one side and cushioned daybeds along the other

WellnessAgios Nikolaos

Nao at Minos Palace: a longevity hub on a Cretan headland

Aerial view at dusk of low white buildings arranged around a lit shallow reflecting pool, with a beach, a lagoon and the town of Naxos beyond

Laguna Coast Naxos: 21 suites and villas in a wetland estate

The cliffside villas of One&Only Kéa Island stepping down a scrub-covered headland to a turquoise bay with a jetty, a pale beach and rows of parasols

One&Only Kéa Island’s four-bedroom house above Vroskopos Bay

A rendering of a mega-yacht marina filling a deep bay, ranks of yachts on floating pontoons, low green-roofed buildings along the shore and the wooded islands of the inner Ionian in the distance

MaritimeMeganisi

The Nautilus Project at Astakos: strategic status for 350 yacht berths

A wide view over high open country, a bare hill flank falling to a patchwork of gold and green fields, a road curving through it and ridged mountains beyond under a pale sky

GastronomyThessaloniki

Artemis Karamolegos took Assyrtiko from Santorini to 700 metres in Amyndeo

An aerial view of a pine-covered headland running into blue sea, with a marina of moored yachts along its quays, a low white hotel among the trees above the shore, and the coast and hills of Athens behind

EstatesAthens Riviera

The Astir peninsula at Vouliagmeni passed to one owner

An aerial view of a long, red-roofed winery standing on a ridge, with vineyards planted in rows on the slopes all around it and a hazy mountain valley falling away behind

GastronomyNafplio

Semeli Estate: the Nemea winery sold to Hellenic Wineries

A yellow and dark blue travel lift standing empty on the concrete hardstanding of the yard, orange and blue lifting strops hanging from its beam, with the container cranes of Piraeus behind and two white motor yachts ashore to the right.

GY Shipyard, the refit yard Golden Yachts built for itself

An aerial view at sunset of white cubic buildings and a curved pool stepping down a green hillside above the sea, with a low sun on the water

Inside Stamna Sifnos, a house built from its own island