Greece has been thinking about the relationship between body, mind and surroundings for thousands of years. At Epidaurus, health was understood as a whole: movement, rest, environment, even theatre, all playing their part. On Kos, Hippocrates taught that how well we feel is inseparable from how we live. Ideas that sit comfortably inside modern wellness have remarkably deep roots here.

Perhaps that’s why so much of Greece still feels naturally suited to feeling well. Swim in the Aegean before breakfast, walk a stone path between villages, eat food that was in the ground or the sea that morning, spend long, unhurried hours outside. Then gather at a table where good food, easy company and time are rarely treated as separate things.

Today those simple pleasures sit alongside exceptional spas, considered retreats and sophisticated wellness programmes, in landscapes that offer very different ways to feel well. Mountain silence in the Pindus, salt and wind in the Cyclades, the volcanic drama of Santorini, olive country in the Peloponnese, the softer greens of the Ionian. Whether you come to focus on how you feel or simply to feel better, in Greece the food, the light and the sea all play their part.