Tatoi Palace is a Greek estate previously used by the Greek Royal Family for over 100 years as a summer residence.
The land was acquired by King George I, who purchased the estate in 1880.
Tatoi currently holds the record for the highest-ever recorded temperature in Europe, according to the UN’s World Meteorological Organisation. Located 17 miles from Athens, the estate also contains a private burial ground for members of the Greek Royal Family.
During World War I, the house suffered significant damage and was eventually burned down in 1916. It was later rebuilt but confiscated from the Greek Royal Family after the monarchy was abolished.
During the Second World War, the estate was used as a fuel depot under German occupation.
King George II was given ownership of the estate in 1946, eventually becoming the property of King Constantine. The estates were confiscated once more by the government of Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou in 1994.
In 2003, King Constantine appealed the ongoing property dispute to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, which ruled in his favour with a 12 million euro judgement that the government had to pay him and his family.
Today, Tatoi remains very much a family estate.
Buried there are King Constantine, as well as his parents, King Paul and Queen Frederica; others interred there are Constantine I, George I, and other members of the Greek Royal Family.
The funeral of the last King of Greece took place at Tatoi, where royalty from around the world was present to pay their respects to the late monarch.
In 2021, a vast fire burned 42,000 of land at Tatoi, though the main house and the cemetery buildings were saved.
