Archipel Mansion is located in the old neighbourhood of “Fraggomahalas” at the highest point of Fira, the capital of Santorini.

The original Mansion was built in the early 18th century and was completed, before 1830, by a monumental second floor, crowned by a characteristic triangular pediment. At that time the Mansion housed an important collection of archaic and Hellenistic sculptures and ceramics, coming from the Ancient Thira excavations, which today are displayed in the archaeological museum of Fira, where they were donated in 1956.
Spanish origin from Catalonia, the Family’s history derives from the period of the Crusades, Francesco Delenda being the founder of the Greek sector of the family first settled in Athens as far back the 14th century, subsequently at Naxos and finally in the mid 16th century at Santorini. Making them part of the aristocracy of the “Doukato tou Aigaiou” (Duchy of the Aegean 1207-1537). The family crest bears a tower and a knife, crowned by a five edge crown, which is the sign of the title of an Earl.