Kanava
Carved into a hillside two hundred years ago, this is a place to go quiet and let the noise of the world recede. Kanava Cave Winery Villa is for anyone who needs deep stillness, with all the warmth of Santorini waiting above.
Step down into the cool of the stone, and notice the noise you arrived with start to fade.
Cut into a Santorini landscape and hidden away from the crowds, Kanava wraps around you in cool stone and low light, and the noise of everything you arrived with slowly falls away.
Down here it is still in a way that is hard to find - the kind of quiet you can feel. Above, a rooftop opens to the sun, the vineyards and the slow island sunrise. It is somewhere to disappear into for a few days, yet only minutes from the life of Santorini when you want it.
4 guests • 1 bed • 1 bathroom
From £187 per night
The Cave
Kanava was a working cave winery two hundred years ago, cut by hand into the volcanic rock, and you can still feel all of it. The conversion kept everything that mattered - the vaulted chambers, the cavities and curves, the imprints of two centuries of winemaking - and added only what was needed to live well: a calm, considered interior, soft light, and small recesses in the walls that still hold local wine, as they always have. The thick stone keeps it naturally cool and quiet, the kind of silence that lets you sleep deeply, read slowly, and let the days lose their edges.
The Setting
Kanava sits on the edge of Mesaria, a traditional village in the green centre of the island that most visitors never reach, surrounded by the vineyards that have shaped Santorini for thousands of years. Climb to the rooftop for the heated jacuzzi, the morning coffee, the sunrise and the long view over the vines. The famous sunsets, the caldera and the restaurants are a few minutes away when you want them - but the real luxury here is how easily you can ignore them, and simply stay put.
