Golden Peninsula

On the western coast of Syros, where the land drops sharply to the sea, is this private coastal estate of 211,735 sqm, occupying its own headland above the open Aegean. The approach winds down in long curves, the road narrowing as the land falls away on both sides, and the estate reveals itself only at the final turn: stone buildings set low into the ridge, the pool terrace reaching out toward the water, and beyond it nothing but sea to the horizon. The orientation is west; the light here in the late afternoon is the flat silver of the Cycladic summer, and it stays on the water long after the coast behind has gone into shadow.