CENTAURS

PELION

Where Chiron kept his school, above the sea at Tsangarada

Opening spring 2027

A house that receives guests

The chestnut forest behind you, the Aegean below

Mornings that start late on the terrace and evenings that end at a long table under the plane trees. A house that asks nothing of you.

A listed nineteenth-century mansion, restored stone by stone
Ten thousand square metres of terraced garden, orchard and cypress walk
A handful of rooms, and a house that is never full

CENTAURS was never built to be a hotel, and it has not been turned into one. It remains a house, with its thick schist walls, its timber ceilings and a fireplace on every floor, and it keeps the habits of a house: breakfast when you wake, a garden to lose a day in, dinner that arrives at the hour you choose.

Discover the house

The House

Stone, chestnut and the light of the eastern slope

The mansion is of the old aristocratic Pelion type. Three storeys of grey-brown schist, a central stair hall, shuttered windows that open onto the orchard on one side and the sea on the other. A few steps away stands the paraspito, a two-storey stone pavilion with its own veranda, so that the estate reads as a small historic compound rather than a single building.

The restoration keeps everything that was worth keeping and adds only what comfort requires. Inside, the original stone and timber are paired with linen, walnut and marble, discreet light and generous bathrooms. Nothing hums. Nothing blinks.

Rooms and suites

The front facade of the stone mansion, with green shutters and a stone stair to the door

A bedside of walnut and marble with a sconce and an olive branch

The Terrace

Where most of the day happens

Rooms & Suites

Rooms that keep the rhythm of the old windows

Each room follows the mansion's original plan, so no two are alike. Most have a fireplace. All have the view they were given a century and a half ago.

A suite with a canopy bed, open wardrobe and chestnut floor

Upper floor

The Chiron Suite

Under the roof, with the mansion's widest view across the slope to the sea. Two rooms joined into one, a fireplace, and a bath set beneath the old beams.

A sitting room with a linen sofa, a woven table and a tall window onto the garden

Main hall

The Garden Suites

Around the central stair hall, each with a sitting room of its own and windows that open onto the orchard and the cypress walk.

A bedroom with a striped linen throw, bedside lamps and two windows onto the hills

All floors

The Rooms

Quiet, generous rooms of stone and linen. Deep beds, a desk by the window, and a bathroom with the marble kept cool by the walls.

A bedroom with a tray of tea on the bed and a view of the village through the window

Towards the village

Morning light

The eastern rooms take the first sun. Tea arrives on a tray and the village wakes below the window.

A suite with an open wardrobe, a four-poster bed and a window onto the garden

Paraspito

The Pavilion

A few steps from the house, the old pavilion keeps a bedroom and a long reception room that opens onto its own timber veranda.

A quiet corner with an armchair, a window with timber blinds and a wall sconce

Everywhere

Quiet corners

An armchair by a window, a reading lamp, the shutters half closed against the afternoon. The house keeps many such places.

Tables under the pergola in the courtyard of the mansion

The Table

Breakfast from the estate, dinner from the village

There is no restaurant at CENTAURS, and this is by design. Breakfast is cooked from the orchard, the kitchen garden and the producers of the surrounding villages, and it lasts as long as you like. Through the day the house keeps wine, small plates and picnics for the grounds. In the evening, dinner comes from a short list of the best tavernas of Tsangarada and Mouresi, or from a visiting cook at the long table under the plane trees.

Stone

Grey stone underfoot, bordered in brown, cool in August.

Walnut

Open wardrobes of walnut and marble, made for the house.

Linen

Linen on the beds and the chairs, the colour of the walls.

Pelion

The mountain of the Centaurs, where the forest meets the sea

Pelion is the mountain where the centaurs lived and where Chiron, wisest of them, taught Achilles and Jason. It is a place of chestnut and beech forest, stone villages, cobbled mule paths and small beaches at the foot of cliffs. Tsangarada sits high on its eastern slope, facing the open Aegean, and the house arranges every day on the mountain for you.

The whole estate

The village
Tsangarada
Four quarters strung along the slope, each around its own church and square, with the thousand-year-old plane tree of Agia Paraskevi at the centre of village life.
Below the house
Mylopotamos
Two coves of white pebble joined by an arch in the rock, reached by the old path down from the village. The water is the colour of glass.
A short drive
Fakistra and Damouchari
A beach beneath the cliffs with a hidden cave, and the old harbour where the mountain's cobbled path ends in the sea.
On foot
The kalderimia
Centuries-old stone paths linking the villages, through chestnut woods, past springs and chapels, walked with a guide or alone.
In season
The orchard harvests
Cherries in June, apples and pears in September, chestnuts in October, and the olive and herb gardens through the year.
In winter
Agriolefkes
Skiing on the mountain's crown in the morning and a swim in the sea by the afternoon, on the days when Pelion allows both.

The first motive was conservation. The mansion was a monument left to the weather, and the only way to save it was to give it a life again. The house came first. The hotel grew out of the house.

On the restoration

The mansion seen from the garden, beneath a tall tree

The whole estate

A house, a pavilion and a garden, taken as one

For a wedding, a retreat or a gathering of family and friends, CENTAURS closes its gate and becomes yours. The cypress avenue, the orchard, the pond with its water lilies, the terraces and the long table are kept for your party alone, with the house's team to run the days as you wish.

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Signature days

Days the house arranges for you

The Long Table

A dinner cooked on the estate by a visiting chef, under the plane trees, for your table alone.

The old paths

A guided morning on the kalderimia, from the village square down to the sea and back by the chestnut woods.

A day at Mylopotamos

A picnic from the kitchen carried down to the coves, and the afternoon left to the water.

The harvest

Cherries, apples or chestnuts, depending on the month, gathered in the orchard and brought to the breakfast table.

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Be among the first to stay

CENTAURS opens in spring 2027. Leave your details and the house will write to you when the first dates are released, before they are offered elsewhere.

CENTAURS
Tsangarada, East Pelion
Magnesia, Greece