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Passage of the day

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

A rooftop terrace with pale sofas and a black-pebble fire bed above the Santorini caldera, the sun setting over the volcanic islets and the open water beyond

EstatesSantorini

A black-basalt house above the Imerovigli caldera

The hotel company has taken a rebuilt five-bedroom house at Imerovigli into Exceptional Homes, its collection of serviced private houses, and sent a villa manager, a chef and a 24-hour concierge with it.

27 January 2025