Yarbasan Stone Houses, Yarbasan Character Hotel, Yarbasan
Boutique Hotel, Yarbasan Hotel,
We would like to thank Algis Kemezys for the photographs he made of the interiors of our Yarbasan Holiday Homes while he was staying with us. For more of his Yarbasan and Bodrum-area-Farmers’ Markets photos please visit his blogs at Open Salon: |
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Yarbasan
Stone-Houses and Yarbasan Boutique Hotel is a complex of twenty three unique dwelling-villas
built on a hill above Ortakent, some twenty minutes west of Bodrum.
Assembled as a village of hand-crafted stone houses with sweeping
views of the Aegean, the Island of Kos and Gökova Bay, and connected
to each other with winding stone alleyways and stair- streets, it is
fashioned after ancient Roman models when Bodrum was known as
Halicarnassus. The project was born as an articulated concept by a
group of visionary architects who excited aesthetic investors who
gave them a free hand to realize something truly extraordinary and
beautiful. It took a mere three years to complete the creation. Each
stone-villa is different but complimentary to the rest, reflecting
co-ordinated design elements. Both exteriors and interiors are
outfitted and finished with ornamental wood, tiles and ceramics
hand-made inside the village, celebrating local artisans who worked
tireless and devotedly to bring to life original architects’
drawings. 
We picked mushrooms and oreganos from the fields, olives from our trees and prepared them, peeled all the citrus fruit we could find from our neighbors and made jams, preserves and juices and we are now ready for travelling. We will be on holidays, and be back on the 10th of February with a new energy.
