Each studio, villa or suite comes with a terrace towards the caldera, deckchairs and and kitchen/kitchenette. There is air condition in all accomodations, room service is daily. The photo to the left shows one of our suites, all of them sporting extra large private terraces.

We are proud to be rated as "alpha" category for the combination of traditional design and modern standards. Each house has a history of its own that left traces in the architecture. One was a bakery before, another housed a large family for a century and in one of them the current owner of Chelidonia villas was born.

So each house differs from the other, as size and structure of the rooms were defined by those Santorinians who built them hundreds of years ago. The kind of furniture you see nowadays counts as genuine Santorinian, but it is not. When the captains of Oia intensified trade with the Greek communities around the Black Sea in the late 18th century they started importing this furniture.
Walk through a villa in 3D

50 years ago all this lay buried under tons of rubble. After the earthquake that shook Oia in 1956 Chelidonia bay was deserted for decades like much of the rest of Oia. Most of the houses were still intact, but the terraces had vanished under the tons of rubble coming down from the collapsing buildings on main street above. 25 years ago we started digging out and restoring the first two of Chelidonia houses.

Reconstruction was done with the aid of old photographs. Oia and especially this part of town has been protected under the UN world cultural heritage program for decades. We decided to stick to these rules inside as well. That is why you will not find an artificially lit jacuzzi dug in at Chelidonia villas or a swimming-pool on the bay. Rooms are as they were before - of course with some necessary amendments.