Our History
 
At the beginning of the previous century, our ancestors lived in Old Sinies village, at the bottom of Pantokrator Mountain. They built their houses here to avoid the pirates who were invading and pillaging the seaside villages.
Our ancestors owned buildings near the sea, which were used for housing their workers and for storing the olives. The heritage was divided between the younger generations. 
Nikolaos Katsaros Georgotzis (nick name), the grand father of the family had in his property 600 olive trees and an olive press, where the family was producing olive oil for sale. His family owned a mini market – cafe (kafeneion) as well in Gimari village, as the production of the olive oil was not a satisfactory income during the period of the hard village life. The olive trees cropped every couple of years and the locals were living from the farming and stock raising. The only son of the Georgotzis family (as the rest of the members are daughters), Dimitris Katsaros, started his own family when he got married Frosso Mavrona. At the beginning of their married life, Dimitris was working as a seaman. Frosso was dedicated to the raising of their children, Nikos and Giorgos, and she was working at the kafeneion. After a few years Dimitris decided to renovate the small building on Kalami Beach, which it was passed to his hands by the patermonial heritage.
 
Dimitris and Frosso started the business with a snack bar. In 1980, Kalami was thinly populated with just a very small number of houses, amongst them the famous White House. Kalami Beach snack bar was open from the morning till the afternoon, serving soft drinks and snacks to the passing tourists coming from Kassiopi and other places of Corfu.
The next four years, a few more houses were built to accommodate the visitors of Kalami. The development of the area had already started. In 1984, the Kalami Beach became a taverna offering Greek and Corfiot traditional homemade food cooked by Frosso. Nikos, the oldest son joined the business after finishing the school.
 
In 1984, the family started to build the first complex of apartments, the Frosso apartments and in 1991 the building of Dimitris apartments were completed as well. Since then, Dimitris and Frosso apartments offer a high standard of accommodation, as Kalami became a popular resort for relaxing summer holidays, still keeping its traditional character and its natural beauty.
 
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