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Santorini
The island given as a gift
Santorini was born from a handful of earth that someone threw into the sea.
Chapter I
The myth
When he woke, he threw it overboard, and an island rose from the water.
On their way home, the Argonauts got lost in the Libyan desert. A sea god, Triton, showed them the way out and gave one of them, Euphemus, a clod of earth. That night Euphemus dreamed that the clod became a young woman who asked him for a home in the sea. When he woke, he threw it overboard, and an island rose from the water: Calliste, “the most beautiful,” which today we call Santorini.
Much later, a volcano split it in two and shaped the caldera that millions of people now watch every sunset, crowded onto the viewpoints of Oia.
Chapter II
On Contadora
1513Balboa sights the South Sea
In 1513, Vasco Núñez de Balboa crossed the isthmus and, from the top of a mountain ridge, saw this ocean. He named it the South Sea and took possession of it for the Crown. Soon after, he sighted its islands and named the region the Archipelago of the Pearls.
More than five hundred years later, on Contadora, the sun still sets over the Gulf of Panama. No lines, no crowded viewpoints, no one blocking your view. Sometimes, just you and the horizon.
Chapter III
Your ritual
At sunset, the villa hands you a handful of Contadora sand. Do what Euphemus did: throw it into the sea and ask for a place to come back to.
The room
Deep blue, pure white
Deep blue and pure white: the most famous contrast in the Cyclades, without artifice. A room for romance and for the last light of day.
Reference images: the photo shoot on Contadora will replace them. The room details (size, beds, view and capacity) will be published with the real data.
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