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Location

The villa is located in one of the most exquisite areas of the Athenian Riviera, in a beautiful private complex that stretches over a 20,000 sqmland plot, situated around the Tourkolimano bay, where you can enjoy amazing views of the Aegean Sea, and of the surrounding mountain of Ymitos, while the lights from the islands of Egina and Poros glimmer in the night.

The summer complex is located approximately 2km from the nearest town (Thimari) and 9km from the historic Cape Sounio, at the southernmost tip of the Attica peninsula.The beach is just a 3min walk, while waters are crystal and really refreshing.

Location

The villa is located in a beautiful private complex under the name ‘’Apollon’’ situated around the Tourkolimano bay (on the 57.5km of the Athens-Sounio highway), approximately 5km form the main town of Palaia Fokaia and 36km from the international airport ‘’Eleftherios Venizelos’’. The Villa was built on the north part of the complex (approximately 300m from the beach), thus providing the opportunity to every visitor to enjoy amazing plate views of the Saronikos Sea and the nearby islands of Poros and Aegina. The nearest port situated in the town of Lavrio (19 km away) provides a good escape way for a ferry boat ride to the islands of Kea and Kithnos, offering a taste of the Cycladic islands beauty and colors. Piraeus port is furthest way (55km distance) and stands as the main gateway to all the Aegean islands.

The Athens historic center (where one can visit the Acropolis temple of goddess Athena) is approximately a 50 min drive, using either the Attica Speed Road, or taking a seaside car ride around the beautiful Athens Riviera. Cape Sounio (temple of Poseidon/Neptune) is approximately 9km from the villa, where one can combine history with pleasure. There are several fish restaurants nearby where a visitor can enjoy the sunset with the sea breeze.

History

Cape Sounio is situated at southernmost tip of the Attica peninsula, approximately 60km from the town of Athens. Cape Sounion is noted for its Temple of Poseidon, one of the major landmarks of the Golden Age of Athens. The area of Sounio was referred first time in Homer’s Odyssey ‘’where during the return of the Greek ships from Troy, the captain of the ship of King of Sparta Menelaus died at his post, and Menelaus stopped at the cape to give his companion full funeral honors. Cape Sounio was regarded as one of the principal fortresses of the Attica prefecture during the Peloponnesian war. Though Sounio was especially sacred to Athena, we learn from Aristophanes that Poseidon was also worshipped there.

The inscribed name of Lord Byron, is carved into the base of one of the columns of the Temple of Poseidon, possibly dates from his first visit to Greece, on his Grand Tour of Europe before he acquired fame. Byron spent several months in 1810–11 in Athens, including two documented visits to Sounio. Byron mentions Sounio in his poem Isles of Greece:

Place me on Sunium’s marbled steep,
Where nothing, save the waves and I,
May hear our mutual murmurs sweep…