The company chose for a name an historical, mythical name that symbolizes the
route of the Greek people in time, history and place.
We created a hotel in Skala that holds the Asteris characteristics:
-a lighthouse in the Ionian sea, a mark on the rocky shore that can be seen from
everywhere, a mythical island, a creation of God that might even be the home of
the "suitors".
When mighty God, Zeus, created the islands and dropped them from the sky to
take root on Earth, some of them were lost in the bottom of the sea, others took
roots and only a few of them floated and since then, still float freely in the
seas.
These islands were called "ASTERIDES" because they fell like stars from the sky
and with their presence the guide ships and seamen on their great voyages.
Two of them were the most famous "Asterides" : the first was the famous and
sacred isle of Dilos in the Cyclades in the Aegean Sea, which in ancient years,
was called Asteris.
The second was the famous mythical Asteris of Homer, the mysterious island of
the Ionian Sea, known as the island of the "suitors".
There, the suitors of the throne of Homeric Ithaca, plotted the murder of
Telemachus, son of Odysseas, on his return from Pilos.
The discovery of the Asteris, in the Ionian Sea, this child of Zeus, this
"Homeric message", this eternal island of the "suitors" will be the revelation
of the history...
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