Xenia Hotel
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Xenia (Ξενία) was a nationwide hotel construction program initiated by the Hellenic Tourism Organisation (E.O.T.) to improve the country's tourism infrastructure in the 1960s and 1970s. It constitutes one of the largest infrastructure projects in modern Greek history.
The buildings were embedded in the landscape, but at the same time followed a modernist style.
From 1957 the buildings were designed by a team under legendary modernist architect Aris Konstantinidis.
The Xenia program itself was officially terminated in 1983, and the hotels were given over to private operators or eventually sold off. Many of them currently remain in a state of decay, as ruins of an era of optimism.
