One of the last late-period Neoclassical mansions built in Greece stands in Vaporia, the sea-captain quarter of Ermoupolis where the Cyclades' mercantile wealth once concentrated itself in stone. Converted in 2020 into the nine-suite Aristide Hotel, the building's pink-rendered facade, grey marble quoins, and wrought-iron balconies visible from the street retain every gram of their original gravity — the blue-domed church visible in the near distance providing the kind of backdrop that reminds you Syros was, for a brief nineteenth-century moment, the most important city in Greece. Inside, the mansion's tall arched doorways and plasterwork cornices have been kept intact, with the hotel's own team layering an Art Deco inflection across the suites: oversized velvet headboards in dusty rose, quilted silk bedspreads with palm-fan motifs, herringbone oak floors, and a sculptural brass floor lamp that sits in one room like a piece from a 1970s Milanese studio. Cosmin Todor took responsibility for the bathrooms, bar, and bespoke marble furniture, drawing on nine varieties of local Greek stone. The bar is the most concentrated space in the building: crimson walls hung gallery-dense with framed photographs, a polished steel counter, encaustic tiled floors in terracotta and sage, and a lavender ceramic Sicilian Moor's head presiding over the room with cheerful incongruity. The rooftop terrace, planted with clipped topiary and furnished in yellow and forest green, opens across open water toward the Aegean horizon.