The Tsitouras Collection Hotel Santorini

General Information

On Santorini, legend is almost indistinguishable from reality. And there, on the island reputed to have been the land of Atlantis, the 5 houses of the Tsitouras Collection are perched on a thousand-foot rock facing one of the majority amazing views in the Mediterranean.

The manor house that forms the nucleus of the Tsitouras Collection was constructed in 1780. Over the centuries, it features catered as a school, post office, and privately-owned home. It was restored in 1985 by the famed collector Dimitris Tsitouras, and is now a little luxury shop hotel.

Dimitris Tsitouras is a lifelong art lover and historian, in addition to the author of plenty of books approximately the island, known as the Greek Pompeii. In 40 years, Dimitris Tsitouras features amassed over four. 000 Santorinian artefacts, all destined for a museum he is now building. In 2007, ITN Factual, on behalf of Discovery Channel, included him in the Worlds Most Successful Series, dedicating a whole episode on his life, from childhood up to now, covering all his activities, in addition to this five-star hotel in the spot of Santorini.

In collaboration with British designer David Hicks, who recommended him on color schemes, Dimitris Tsitouras went approximately decorating every cottage around a various Facet of Greek heritage, infusing every one with a peculiar personality, and thus creating a design hotel with museum-quality art business, dating back to the nineteenth century.

Features such as the domes, vaults, inside windows and skylights typical of Santorinian architecture are combined with delicious decor, up-to-date furniture, antiques and some of Tsitouras privately-owned collections of objets d art including old amphorae, Byzantine icons, ancient maps, mariners chests, paintings, etc.

These lodgings have a holding capacity of between 2 and 5 people every, and are named after the unmatched range in every one- The House of the Sea, the House of the Winds, the House of Portraits, the House of Porcelain,