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In short, I say that as a city we are the school of Hellas

Thucydides · History of the Peloponnesian War

The glazed orangerie dining room at night, its blue-black steel frame hung with white globe lamps, white-clothed tables set before floor-to-ceiling glass with the lit garden beyond

GastronomyAthens

The Orangerie Lit Again: Artisanal Reopens in Kifissia

The 1920s mansion on Zirini returned on 12 December 2025 as a dining room proper, with Giannis Parikos as executive chef and part-owner

A lit restaurant level above a floodlit swimming pool at dusk, glazed and open to a terrace, with palms and planting on either side

GastronomyAthens

The First Table at THE ILISIAN: Onuki Opens in Athens

A lit shopfront under a white fascia reading Smoku, with bar stools and small tables set out on the pavement beside potted palms

GastronomyAthens

The Room Behind the Bar: Dimitris Katrivesis Returns to Athens

An elevated view of the New Port at Tourlos, a long concrete ferry mole with terminal buildings running out into the sea, a motor yacht lying alongside the inner quay and a marina basin of floating pontoons and small craft behind it

MaritimeMykonos

Bollards Before Berths: The Repair of Tourlos Marina

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

The Assyrtiko Benchmark Changes Hands: Kir-Yianni Takes Domaine Sigalas

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 Remains a 2029 Paper Plan

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

A Berth for 140 Metres: Corfu Clears Its Last Political Gate

Perama Builds Quiet: Golden Yachts Unveils the 85-Metre O'Ceanis

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

Purple Stone and Deep Water: Ermioni Begins Its Marina

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

Eight Ports, Seven Nights: Luminara Takes the Aegean the Long Way

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

A Consent Before the Permit: Alimos Begins Its €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

The Room Beneath the Floor: Rizes Opens the Cellar It Found 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

Sixty Metres, Built at Perama: Golden Yachts Delivers O'Madeleine

A Greek yard on the edge of Piraeus hands over a tri-deck for 12 guests, drawn by Studio Vafiadis and dressed by Massari Design.

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 Sinks 20 Suites into a Kissamos Hillside

Part-subterranean accommodation and planted roofs continue a 15,000-square-metre olive slope above the bay

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 Takes 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 Changes Scale Above Ornos Bay

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

The Osteopath Comes Home: Cape Sounio Opens Elevations of Wellness

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 Spreads 160 Keys Across 100 Acres

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

A Larger Elios at Kolympithres: Parīlio Widens Its Spa Beside 13 New Villas

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

WellnessAgios Nikolaos

To Flow: Nao Opens 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 Places 21 Keys Inside 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 Adds a Four-Bedroom House Above the 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

A Container Port Turns: Astakos Wins Strategic Status for 350 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

Assyrtiko Leaves the Island: Artemis Karamolegos Plants at 700 Metres