The hotel co-owners and co-managers, Evagelos Karpatselis and Alexandros Kastrinos, met while studying economics at the University of Athens. However, it wasn’t until years later, after they had received their Master’s degrees in economics and business administration at the Universities of Sheffield and Southampton, that the two would reunite in Greece as they prepared for their obligatory military service.

Evagelos had always been unsure about following in his father’s footsteps and becoming a full-time farmer. But when he remembered his father’s orange grove in the outskirts of Nafplio and told Alexandros about it, a dream was born. In their mid-twenties, Evagelos and Alexandros began planning and implementing their vision of a luxurious hotel surrounded by the natural beauty of verdant hills, olive trees, and orange groves that would provide guests with an authentic Greek hospitality experience and emphasize agritourism.