LEIGH-FERMOR HOUSE
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Superb home of British writer Patrick Leigh Fermor. Part of the Benaki Foundation museums. Reservations required.
This superb house (Οικία Λη Φέρμορ/Ikia Li Fermor) was the home of writer Patrick Leigh Fermor (1915-2011) and his wife, photographer Joan Leigh Fermor, née Eyres-Monsell (1912-2003), both British. Renovated and open to the public since 2019, it is part of the Benaki Foundation. As the property is also available to rent, reservations must be made on the Benaki Museums website for the guided tour. Patrick and Joan Leigh Fermor bought the land in 1962 and commissioned architect Nikos Hadjimichalis (1923-1986) to design what became their main residence. Built in the Maniote style from 1964 onwards using stone from Ottoman buildings in Kalamata, the house and its outbuildings blend beautifully into the landscape. Surrounded by a garden on a hillside drowned in laurel, cypress, olive and pomegranate trees, they offer beautiful views of Kalamitsi Bay and the islet of Meropi. The interior of the main house is uncluttered. Here we discover the writer's library and study. It was here that Sir Leigh Fermor wrote most of his work: memories of his crossing of Europe on foot in the 1930s, his involvement with Greek and Albanian resistance fighters as a secret agent during the Second World War... Among the rare works translated into French is Enlever un général (Nevicata, 2016), in which Fermor recounts his great feat of arms: the abduction of German general Heinrich Kreipe, in Crete, in 1944.
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