Built in 2018, this 62 sq.m. tree house hosts up to 4 in its roomy and rustic rooms! Have a unique view to our orchard and to the Elis Valley while you enjoy your drink in the veranda. Also don't miss out a chance for a relaxing bath among the trees!
The agritouristic Orangia Farm is a newly established enterprise at an old family orchard of more than 20 acres at Lefkochori Village, Illia, Greece.
A land owned since the Ottoman Occupation
Orangia Farm is established at an old family field. The current area of 13 acres is but a fragment of the huge 250-acre estate that has belonged to the Diamantopoulos family since the 18th century. The family owned land in the area since the Ottoman Occupation of Greece and afterwards in the New Greek Kingdom. They were also chieftains in the Revolution of 1821 that led to the Greek independence. A marble plaque at the village’s square commemorates these events. Later, they held on strongly to the lands and never left them from the family, although, due to perpetual divisions between heirs, the portion of each member diminished significantly. Since the beginning of the 20th century, many members followed careers in Medicine, the Law, Banking and Education, but were still actively involved in farming. By the middle of the 20th century, the farm was acknowledged as one of the prime farms in the Mediterranean. Now, the youngest generation, represented by Antonis-Andreas Diamandopoulos, who trained in Mechanical Aeronautics at the University of Patras, decided to return to the land and turn it into an agrotouristic attraction.
A theatrical recreation of a picturesque folklore village
The current owners – Antonis-Andreas and his wife Irene – never planned to turn the farm into a theatrical recreation of a picturesque folklore village. The usual pseudo – peasant dwellings attracting the lay tourist did not appeal. Thus the buildings and their furnishing are a sincere image of a living in farm by a local but still cosmopolitan family as is the case of most big farms in Greece. Similarly, to the British manors you can see accumulated unescorted furniture, paintings, porcelain, architectural fragments from different areas and eras witnessing the family members’ travels and or lives into several parts of Greece and Europe from Russia to Great Britain and beyond.