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The Privé Collection 2026 · A Private Experience

Manna

A 1920s sanatorium standing alone in the fir forests of Mount Mainalon, brought back as a place of stillness, slow food and mountain air, two and a half hours from Athens.

The mountain keeps the quiet
Mainalon · Arcadia, Greece 37° 36.17′ N  /  22° 9.47′ E
Satopia Travel presents A cinematic travel experience In partnership with Manna
The Hotel

A grand building with one past and a very different present, alone at 1,200 metres.

The road climbs out of the Peloponnese orchards into fir forest, and Manna appears the way it always has: a long stone building alone on the mountain, built in the 1920s as a sanatorium for the clean air of Arcadia. That air is still the point.

The restoration kept the bones, the arches, the silence, and added warmth: fires, deep baths, a kitchen rooted in the mountains around it. Days here are walks, long lunches and the kind of sleep the altitude gives you.

Overview Mainalon · Arcadia
Setting
Fir forest at 1,200 metres on Mount Mainalon, Arcadia
Accommodation
A restored 1920s sanatorium, now a small mountain hotel
Your rooms
Rooms taken together for your party, or the hotel taken exclusively
Getting there
About 2 hours 30 from Athens airport
The stay
Stay 3 nights or more, and we plan your whole experience
Satopia experience
Tailor-made for you: guides, tables and cars, arranged end to end
Manna in the firs · 4:5
Enquire

Every experience begins with a single click. Tell us when and with who and we'll design a world around you.

Guests From 2 to 20 guests
2
Nights Minimum 3 nights stay
3
WhatsApp Email Satopia reservations
The Hotel

Built for mountain air a century ago, and still run on it.

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01 Accommodation

Monastic lines, softened with wool, oak and fire.

The rooms keep the building’s calm geometry: high windows onto the firs, pale plaster, stone and oak, beds dressed in wool from the region. Nothing shouts; the forest does the decorating.

Take a room for two or hold a floor for your party. Winter brings snow and firelight, summer a cool green refuge from the coast.

Rooms
On confirmation
Sleeps
On confirmation
Inside
Fires, baths & the loggia
Use
Your rooms, or the whole hotel
A room in the firs · 4:5
02 Culinary

Mountain Greece, cooked with a very light hand.

The kitchen looks to Arcadia rather than Athens: mushrooms and herbs from the forest, lamb and cheeses from the villages below, honey and preserves made in the hills. Menus follow the season because up here the season decides.

Meals run long in the dining hall, and in fine weather move to the terrace, where the only view is fir and sky.

The table
The dining hall & terrace
The cellar
Greek mountain wines
The mountain table · 4:5
03 Experiences

Walks, villages and the gorge the monks chose.

Trails leave from the door into the Mainalon range, and the stone villages of Dimitsana, Stemnitsa and Vytina sit within an easy drive, workshops, bell towers and small squares that empty by dusk.

The Lousios gorge runs below, its monasteries pinned to the cliff face, and in winter the mountain turns to a quiet ski hill. Your designer plans each day to the weather.

From the door
Mainalon trails & forest
Nearby
Dimitsana · Stemnitsa · the Lousios
Arcadia, out the door · 4:5
04 Wellness

The original wellness building, doing what it was built for.

Manna was made for restoration a century before the word turned into an industry: altitude, clean air, rest. The spa carries that inheritance with a pool, sauna and treatments that lean on Greek herbs and mountain botanicals.

The deeper treatment is the schedule itself, which asks nothing of you at all.

The spa
Pool, sauna & treatments
The cure
Altitude, air & rest
The waters · 4:5
05 Service

A small team, and one designer over the whole stay.

The hotel runs at a mountain pace: a small team who know the trails, the villages and the weather, and treat the building like the landmark it is locally.

Behind them sits your Satopia travel designer, who holds your rooms, plans the days and stays one call away throughout.

At the hotel
A small mountain team
Behind it
One Satopia travel designer
Quiet hospitality · 4:5
06 Setting

Arcadia, the original byword for the pastoral.

Poets borrowed this region’s name for paradise, and the middle of the Peloponnese still earns it: fir forest, high meadows, shepherd villages and a silence that surprises people who know only the Greece of the islands.

Manna stands alone in that landscape, which is precisely the luxury. The nearest crowd is a mountain range away.

Around you
Fir forest & high meadows
Below
The villages of Arcadia
Alone on the mountain · 4:5
Moments

The mountain, in motion.

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Image slot Mist through the firs at first light.
Image slot The loggia set for a long lunch.
Image slot Snow on the mountain, fires within.
Image slot The road up from the villages.
Plan your Experience

What's the forecast?

Everything here is to help you picture it. Your travel designer handles the arranging: the flights, the cars, the guides, the tents held for you alone.

When to go
Best · May – October · green trails and cool nights; winter for snow and firesides
7°
Jan
8°
Feb
11°
Mar
15°
Apr
20°
May
25°
Jun
28°
Jul
28°
Aug
24°
Sep
18°
Oct
12°
Nov
8°
Dec
Rainfall Driest July · wettest December
Walking season · ideal High summer · warm days Rainfall trend
For two

Firesides and forest.

A room in the firs, long dinners, and a mountain that asks nothing of you except to stay another day.

For the walkers

Trails from the door.

The Mainalon range, the Lousios gorge and the stone villages, planned day by day around the weather.

For a gathering

A floor, or the whole hotel.

Rooms taken together for a family or friends, with the dining hall and the loggia as your own.

For the season

Two hotels in one.

Green and cool all summer, snowbound and firelit in winter. Both are worth the drive.

Plan your journey

How far is it from you?

Choose where you would set out from. We'll estimate the flight and how much the time change is likely to ask of you.

The Satopia Advantage™

You choose the place.
We'll do all the planning.

We hold the relationship with Manna, so we can hold your rooms together on your dates, or take the hotel exclusively for a rare occasion. From there a single travel designer composes every day around you. You simply arrive.

What we secure

The right rooms, taken together on the mountain, matched to your party and the season. The access a direct booking rarely reaches.

What we arrange

Every day composed by one travel designer: the guides and the villages, the tables and the cars, present when wanted, unseen when not.

People we bring to you, on request
Mountain guides
Drivers, door to door
Spa therapists
Winemakers & tastings
Childminders
Photographers
Satopia Insider

A few things worth knowing.

Drawn from recent guests.

Arrive without expecting obvious signage

Manna sits deep in the fir forest of Mount Mainalon, and the design that makes it so peaceful also means parking and reception are not clearly marked. Allow extra time on arrival, especially if driving up in poor weather, and let the team know your eta so they can meet you with the car and bags. The forest setting is the whole point, so patience with wayfinding pays off.

Build in time for the spa and forest walks

The pool, sauna and spa areas are where guests tend to linger longest during their stay. Hiking routes lead straight from the hotel through the surrounding fir forest, which is best explored in the morning before breakfast. Several guests note that watching the sunrise or sunset directly from the room is a standout moment of the trip.

Extend your stay

Want to stay a little longer?
We'll plan that too.

Manna sits at the centre of the Peloponnese, so most travellers make a wider Greek journey of it. A few we would pair it with, each arranged as one seamless experience.

Image slotNafplio & the Argolid · 9:16
The Argolid

Nafplio & Epidaurus

Down to the coast: the old Venetian town, the ancient theatre, and long harbour dinners.

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Image slotThe Mani · 9:16
The south

The Mani peninsula

Stone towers, cypress and empty coves at the wild end of the Peloponnese, a slow day’s drive south.

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Image slotAthens · 9:16
The capital

A few days in Athens

Bookend the mountain with the city on the way in or out: museums, tavernas and the evening Acropolis.

Add to your enquiry
Enquire · The Privé Collection 2026

Every experience begins with a conversation.

Tell us who is coming and your dates. We will shape the rest around you. Nothing is booked yet, and we reply within a day.

01

When would you like to come?

Choose one or more months, or tell us you're flexible on dates.

Ideal season · May to October

02

What's the occasion?

Choose any that apply.

03

An indicative budget?

An estimate of your budget for the whole stay helps us plan your experience. Below is an estimated nightly rate, excluding experience budget, to help you plan.

04

Who shall we reply to?

Included in your experience
  • Breakfast
  • Mini bar (per room description)
Arranged separately
  • Lunch
  • Dinner
  • Spa/wellness treatments

Manna is priced by the room, by night and by season. The figures shown are indicative. Once we check live availability we confirm an exact, all-in quote for your dates, and nothing is booked and no payment taken until you approve it in writing. A deposit then secures your dates, with the balance due before arrival. The full booking terms, cancellation policy and any security deposit are set out in your confirmation.

Private & tailor-made · your rooms, taken together Enquire
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