The Villa
White walls, blue water, and the whole bay in front of you
A detached house on its own land, inside a gated community — three bedrooms, two bathrooms, a private pool, and terraces on every level.
A detached house on its own land, inside a gated community — three bedrooms, two bathrooms, a private pool, and terraces on every level.
A deep, arched terrace runs along the front of the house: shaded at midday, golden in the evening, and open to the sea on three sides. This is where breakfast happens, where lunches drift into afternoon, and where everyone ends up after dinner with the lights of Gündoğan below.
The private pool sits at the front of the plot on a wide stone deck with loungers on both sides. Because the villa is on the hill and nothing is built in front of it, the water seems to run straight into the sea — the picture everyone stops to take.
The ground floor is the heart of the house: a living room and a fully fitted kitchen with stainless-steel appliances, both opening wide onto the covered terrace. In summer, inside and outside become one room.
Upstairs are three bedrooms and two bathrooms. The principal bedroom looks straight out over the bay — you see the water before anything else in the morning. Room for a family and their guests, and for everyone to find a quiet corner.
A white-walled deck with nothing around it but sky and sea, looking over the rooftops of Herodot Villas to the open Aegean. The entrance to the house is on this upper level — which is what keeps the pool floor so private.
Villa Mia is one of a few dozen detached villas terraced into the Kızılburun hillside on the north-western side of Gündoğan bay, every one angled at the water. The lanes are named after the flowers on the stone walls — Begonville, Oleander, Daisy, Lily.
The community is fully gated with round-the-clock security, in what is already one of the calmest corners of the peninsula. There is a large communal infinity pool and sun terrace for sociable days, and beach access at the foot of the hill for salt-water ones.
The name is no accident: Herodotus, the "father of history", was born in Halicarnassus — today's Bodrum — around 484 BC.
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Gündoğan, the peninsula, the map and the distances.
