Hilltop traditional luxury villa in Kythira
The property is a traditional luxury house with spectacular sea views, perched on the top of the hill village of Gerakari.
The property in total measures 288sqm, built in stone to very high specifications and afforded every luxury and convenience and enjoying uninterrupted spectacular panoramic sea views. Situated on a Hilltop position with spectacular 180° sea-views across to the southern tip of the Peloponnese (Cape Maleas). The immediate foreground is largely zoned as protected forestry offering bucolic views over vineyards and grazing sheep, over undulating hills falling away to the coastline’s majestic sea-views framed by the distant mountains of the Peloponnese along the horizon.
The architecturally designed buildings and landscaped gardens have all been created with a very high aesthetic regard and a fastidious attention to detail. There are 5 full bathrooms, 5 bedrooms, 1 spacious office flooded with light from three aspects and 5 kitchens (inclusive of 2 exterior kitchen areas). The property boasts a 6m x 4m swimming pool overlooking the same spectacular sea views. The pool is fitted with a salt chlorination system.
The main Villa (207m2); Byzantine chapel cottage including the mezzanine (43m2); and Oleander Cottage (38m2) form the same property, and are sold together. They are all of solid stone construction, using traditional building techniques with no expense spared, and are finished to an exceptionally high standard.
The attractively designed pool area is surrounded by gardens, allowing for shaded or sunny seating and lounging areas, all designed and built taking into account the extraordinary views and remarkable privacy being not overlooked at all. The pool area is paved with natural limestone, and bound in part by limestone dwarf capped walls. The main entry patio at the front of the villa may also be used as a lounging/seating area if choosing to catch the late afternoon sun or the shade of the olive trees. Adjacent and to the left of the main house lies The Byzantine chapel. The chapel has it’s own private access and is fully self-contained. It is cosy and romantic and full of rustic charm. The chapel is self-contained and has its own private entrance. The Byzantine Chapel Cottage has been very successfully rented on short-term holiday rentals during the summer season for some 12 years.
Lying to the right of the main villa is Oleander Cottage, another self-contained cottage or guest-house. The cottage benefits from the exceptional sea views to the front terrace with stone paving and dwarf stone walls, nestled in gardens with a cobbled path leading to the pool area immediately to the left of the terrace. Further heating and or cooling is provided for by air-conditioning. The main house and the Oleander cottage offer fuel-fired central heating via beautiful antique cast iron radiators in each room, further heating and or cooling is provided for by air-conditioning. At Byzantine chapel An invertor air-conditioner is fitted. The main Villa holds an EOT licence with both the Byzantine Cottage and Oleander Cottage having been very successfully let through a short-term holiday rental platform during the summer season, (Byzantine chapel consistently for some 12 years).
The villa is set back from the road with a shady parking area under mature trees. The house is approached via a private long stone-paved drive with winding stone cobbled walking pathways snaking through landscaped gardens and established olive trees.
The island of Kythira is a unique island in many respects. It has many aspects and "hidden" beauties. The picturesque villages, sandy beaches, museums, monuments and attractions, the caves and castles are some of the many reasons that Kythira has an expanding tourism industry and many loyal visitors year after year. The island is serviced daily by domestic flights from the Athens International Airport. There is also ferry service from the ports of Piraeus in Attica and Gythio and Neapoli in Lakonia.
15 min from the nearest beaches
10 min from the village of Potamos
20 min from the Airport of Kythira