Epidaurus, Mycenae & Nafplion, ~170 km · ~106 mi
The classic run into the Peloponnese: the great theatre of Epidaurus, then Mycenae and Nafplion in the same long, golden day.
Schinias · Marathon · Attica, Greece
Your Aegean escape, an hour from Athens.
A hidden gem on the cliffs at Schinias, pine forest, a long sandy bay and the open Aegean, fifty kilometres (about thirty miles) from Athens.
N 38°09′18″ · E 24°03′31″ · SCHINIAS
The Sea
The sea, and the hidden gem above it.
Fifty metres (about 165 feet) below the terrace, the sea; fifty kilometres (about thirty miles) away, Athens.
Stone Castle Villa keeps a rare address: a hidden gem just fifty kilometres (about thirty miles) from Athens, where the Dikastika settlement meets the cliffs of the Schinias coast, about an hour from the city, and a world of pine, salt and stone apart.
Rustic Luxury
A castle raised from its own ground.
Stone, timber and iron, the materials of the place itself.
The houses were built castle-like from stone quarried on the property itself, on cliffs about fifty metres (roughly 165 feet) above the sea. Inside, the furniture keeps the same temper, antiques, and pieces hand-crafted in wood and iron.
The estate stands within Dikastika, the community of the Judges & Attorneys at Schinias, private and quiet above the bay.
THE ESTATE IN PENCIL · DIKASTIKA, SCHINIAS
N 38°09′18″ · E 24°03′31″
Location & Surroundings
Pine forest, open water, the city an hour away.
Everything the name Schinias promises, beach, park and bay.
Schinias Beach
A long stretch of golden sand on calm, shallow water, the gentle, sandy alternative to the cliffs at the villa's feet.
Schinias National Park
A Natura 2000 reserve whose rare umbrella-pine forest runs all the way to the water's edge, sheltering more than 200 bird species, with six observatories for watching them.
Athens
Fifty kilometres (about thirty miles), about an hour: the Acropolis and its museum in the morning, the old lanes of Plaka for lunch, and back for a swim before evening.
From the estate
Sandy beach
1.8 km · 1.12 mi
Schinias National Park
2 km · 1.24 mi
Olympic Rowing Centre
5.5 km · 3.42 mi
Nea Makri
16.5 km · 10.25 mi
Athens centre
50 km · 31.06 mi ~1 hr
Marathon, 490 BC
The coastline where 490 BC happened.
In 490 BC the Persian fleet sailed into the bay below this coast, and on the plain of Marathon behind it the Athenians turned them back. Their fallen were buried beneath the mound that still rises from the fields, the Tomb of the Athenians, and the run that carried the news to the city has named every marathon since.
The story is still run every November, when the Athens Authentic Marathon sets out again; and the archaeological site of Rhamnous waits a couple of hills away along the coast.
Olympic Rowing Centre: 5.5 km (3.4 mi)
The 2004 Olympic Rowing & Canoeing Centre lies at the edge of the park, still one of only three World Rowing–approved training centres in the world, five and a half kilometres (about three and a half miles) from the villa.
Local Experiences
Tavernas, markets, the seafront promenade.
The unhurried side of Attica, kept by the people who summer here.
There are tavernas in Marathon and in the villages around it, and farmers' markets for stocking the villa's two kitchens. Nea Makri, 16.5 km (10.3 mi) away, gathers the shops, the restaurants and a seafront promenade made for the evening walk.
In summer the coast hums quietly with Athenian families at their vacation homes, tables filling late, the season's easy rhythm settling in. It is Greece as Athenians keep it for themselves, an hour from the city.
Day Trips
Twenty-five centuries within a day's drive.
Leave after breakfast; be back for a swim before dinner.
Delphi, ~180 km · ~112 mi
A full day to the sanctuary of Delphi and back, the ancients' centre of the world, reached through the mountains.
The Saronic Islands, cruises from Piraeus
Day cruises out of Piraeus call at Hydra, Poros and Aegina, three islands in one unhurried day on the water.
Athens: 50 km · 31 mi · ~1 hr
The Acropolis and its museum, the lanes of Plaka, an hour away, and home in time for dinner by the pool.
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