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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

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The Panoptis Escape estate on the ridge above Elia Bay, its white buildings and pools on bare brown hillside, with the long sand beach and turquoise shallows below.

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Eighteen villas on the highest point of Elia

The Daktylides family’s newest house at Elia takes the top of the hillside: 18 villas and retreats on ground chosen for its sun and its shelter, and an estate that can be reserved whole for one party of 69.

6 October 2026

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.

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Every room at Utopia faces the sea

6 October 2026

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

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The villas above Elia Bay

6 October 2026

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

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

6 October 2026

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

6 October 2026

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

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

6 October 2026

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

6 October 2026

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

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Santa Marina: the Mykonos hillside that was a house first

6 October 2026

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

6 October 2026

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

6 October 2026

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

6 October 2026

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.

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A Niklian tower at Koita, and the cellar inside it

5 October 2026

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

Half the rooms in this Kordia house have a pool of their own, with the Messinian gulf in front and Taygetos behind, and the city centre five minutes away.

5 October 2026

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.

5 October 2026