Greece plans to convert the 10,000-acre Tatoi Estate into an international tourist destination, the Culture Ministry announced last month, greekcitytimes.com reports.
The Tatoi estate served as the home for the Greek royals for decades but was abandoned in 1967 when the country was taken over by a military junta.
Over the weekend, the President of the Hellenic Republic, Katerina Sakellaropoulou, and Minister of Culture and Sports Lina Mendoni toured the Tatoi Estate.
“Over forty thousand acres of rare natural beauty, buildings sealed with history, thousands of objects awaiting maintenance and a number of vehicles, samples of the evolution of movement over the decades, have resisted oblivion and time and are preparing to be offered to the visitor’s gaze,” Sakellaropoulou noted on Instagram.
“The return of the Tatoi Estate to the citizens, as a place of historical memory and evaluation, aesthetic pleasure and recreation, is a way of proper management of the collective memory. And, above all, an act of democracy,” she added.
“This site is closely linked to our modern history,” said historian Costas Stamatopoulos, an expert on the Greek royal family.
“Finally, the state has decided to take it seriously.”
The plan includes luxury accommodation, wellness facilities, restaurants, a museum, footpaths, and sports activities including cycling and horseback riding, as well as a forest village with agro-tourism infrastructure.
Mendoni described the project as a “national goal”, which will center around five key areas: history and culture, outdoor sports and recreation, agricultural economy, research and know-how, wellness, and tranquillity.
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