The Vault
Κατώι
The old storeroom under a stone barrel vault, cool in summer, with its own door to the garden.
- Floor
- Ground floor
- Size
- 26 m²
- Beds
- A double bed, 160 cm
- Sleeps
- 2
- The view
- The garden and the walnut, through an arched window
- Dogs
- Welcome, €10 a night
The room’s story
This was where the Hatzigakis family kept what the house lived on: wheat, wool waiting for the trader, cheese in brine, the wine. The vault is built without mortar, stone leaning on stone, and it is the only part of the house that never let the weather in.
We cleaned it back to the stone, laid an oak floor over new heating, and opened the old loading door into a door to the garden. It is the coolest room in August and, with the heating under your feet, the snuggest in January. Dogs sleep here happily, and so do their people.
The plan
Katerina drew every room before the masons started, and redrew it when the walls turned out not to be where the old survey said. This is the room as it stands.
In the room
- Stone barrel vault, restored
- Own door to the garden
- Shower in a stone niche
- Dogs welcome
- Underfloor heating
Rates by season
€95
November to March, except the holidays. The quiet months: fires every evening, snow two or three times, dinner on request nearly every night.
€125
April to October, Christmas to Epiphany, Easter week. Walking weather, long evenings in the courtyard, and in October the beech woods.
- A night, for the room, with breakfast for everyone in it.
- Two nights at weekends and three at Christmas, New Year and Orthodox Easter.
- Free cancellation until 14 days before arrival. After that the deposit is kept, unless we can let the room again.
- Cash or card when you leave. City tax is €1.50 a room a night, set by the state.
- Spring
- Summer
- Autumn
- Winter