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Athens at dusk from Lycabettus Hill, the floodlit Acropolis in the middle distance and the sea beyond.

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Three landscapes

Destinations

Countryside, island, city.

Each home was chosen for its place as much as its rooms. These are the places, as we know them.

Olive trees and scrub oak falling away below the villa, with hills stretching to the horizon under an open sky.

Tuscia, northern Lazio

Lazio

Tuscia is the quiet corner of Lazio between Rome and Umbria: tufa-stone villages, Renaissance gardens, thermal springs and a lake with its own islands. It rewards the traveller who stays put and lets the days fill themselves.

A high aerial view of the villa and pool set within six acres of olive and fruit trees, with the valley beyond.

The Palermo hinterland

Sicily

Inland Sicily is where the island keeps its biggest landscapes. From a hillside near Ciminna the view runs over mountains and villages to the sea, and everything the island is known for is a drive away: Palermo’s markets, the mosaics of Monreale, the castle at Caccamo and the beaches of the north coast.

The Odeon of Herodes Atticus lit at night, with the lights of Athens spread out below.

Neapoli and Exarchia

Athens

Neapoli and Exarchia sit just north of Kolonaki and west of Lycabettus Hill. One is quiet, neoclassical and residential; the other is the city’s bookish, argumentative, street-art-covered quarter. Between them is the Athens that Athenians live in.

One trip, two landscapes.

Many guests pair the countryside with the city, or the island with the capital. The connections are simpler than they look, and we can help you line the dates up.

Lazio to Sicily

Fly Rome to Palermo in a little over an hour, or take the slow way: the train down the coast and the ferry across the strait. Collect a car at Palermo for the villa.

Lazio to Athens

Rome to Athens is a direct flight of around two hours. Return the hire car at Fiumicino in the morning; coffee on the balcony in Neapoli by the afternoon.

Sicily to Athens

Flights from Palermo or Catania reach Athens in an afternoon, usually with a change in Rome; seasonal direct routes sometimes run in summer. Ask us when you book and we will help you plan it.

Breakfast things and a linen throw on the portico table, with the garden and valley in soft morning light behind.
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Choose your landscape.

Tell us where and when. We check the calendar ourselves and reply with availability and a written quote, usually within a day.