Villa Athena & Villa Nefeli ...
with multiple capacities for hosting a significant number of
persons…
Elia suites and Elia villa are designed in
simple, austere lines and subtle luxury in harmony with the natural
landscape and the olive groves surrounding the village.
The interior layout of the living spaces ensures full
isolation of each space so that guests can enjoy their holidays in true
relaxation and regeneration, whilst at the same time they feel
like home.
HistoryΕlia suites
Εlia suites comprise the following six separate suites located at the
same building: Elia, Athena, Poseidon, Dimitra, Persephone and Pluto.
According to mythology...
As the myth dictates, Αthena,
the goddess of wisdom, was born out of the all-powerful Zeus’s head.
According to yet another version, she was born in Crete from a
cloud that Zeus struck with a
lightning.
Goddess Athena and Poseidon,
god of the seas, contested as to who would become ruler of Attica
and Gods were to decide on the outcome based on the offers those two
would make to the city.
Poseidon pierced the rock with his trident and saltwater
started running, while goddess Athena pierced the soil with her spear
and out came the evergreen olive tree offering its blessed fruit to
mankind.
After her victory, the goddess gave her name to the city of
Athens.
Dimitra (Demeter), one
of the oldest goddesses of the Ancient Greek pantheon, daughter of Cronus
and Rea, was the goddess of
fertility and vegetation, goddess-patron of the earth; along with her
daughter, Persephone, they held
a key role to Eleusinian Mysteries.
According to mythology, when Pluto,
god of the earth’s riches and king of the underworld, led on a golden
chariot Persephone to his underworld kingdom, Dimitra left the mountain
of Olympus and started wondering
amidst people looking for her daughter, Persephone, until Zeus sent Hermes
with a message to Pluto ordering him to set her daughter free.
Thanks to Dimitra’s return, the plants sprang from
the earth’s soil, the crops grew and the slopes turned green with
vegetation.