For quiet
Manna
Mount Mainalo · Arcadia
A 1920s mountain building, high in the fir forests of Mainalo, that began as a sanatorium and has been reborn as one of Greece's most considered retreats.
The altitude was the original point: the place opened in the 1920s as a sanatorium, built up here for the clean air, then sat derelict for the better part of a century. The Athens practice K-Studio brought it back as a 32-room hotel, a Member of Design Hotels, in a palette of pale plaster, local stone and timber that lets the forest do the talking. Wellness is woven through it: a cave-like indoor pool, a sauna and hammam, an outdoor yoga deck, treatments that borrow from the building's healing past.
The kitchen is led by Athinagoras Kostakos, whose all-day cooking is seasonal and rooted in the mountain larder, herbs, mushrooms, local cheeses and produce from the surrounding valleys. It is the rare hotel restaurant in the Greek interior that would justify the drive on its own.
The Greek mountains rarely get luxury this serious. Manna is design, quiet and a real table in the same forest clearing, and a reminder that the most interesting Greece is often the one without a coastline. The Menalon trail and the stone villages of Dimitsana, Stemnitsa and Vytina are the reward for going inland.
