Saladi — also spelled Salanti, from the Greek Σαλάντι — curves along the eastern coastline of Argolis on the Argolic Gulf, in the middle of Didymos Bay. The main beach faces east and stretches 750 metres. To the north, smaller pockets of sand alternate with rocks that reach into the water. To the south, the beach ends at a 600-metre peninsula jutting perpendicularly into the sea; at its tip stands the small church of Agios Nikolaos. A limestone hill rises above the peninsula, and where the beach ends, a small seasonal wetland has formed that draws various species of birds. The source article notes this is a prehistoric settlement site — the area around Saladi has yielded evidence of human occupation going back to the third millennium BC, and the Franchthi Cave, one of the most important prehistoric sites in Greece, lies to the north. The landscape is beautiful in the uncomplicated way of Greek coastal terrain: calm water, pale limestone, scrub pine, and the particular quality of Aegean light in summer.

During the years of the Greek military junta (1967–1974), a Greek businessman built a large hotel complex on the beach. After the junta fell and Greece gradually reopened to the world, he converted the hotel in 1980 into a resort exclusively for naturists — the first of its kind in the country. It succeeded, at least briefly. The Salanti hotel had a capacity of 924 beds across ten floors, with a total built area that included three restaurants seating 900 people, a kitchen, staff dormitories, and terraces offering sea views. The external grounds held 76 bungalows, two nightclubs, a mini-golf course, tennis and volleyball courts, pools for adults and children, and a biological purification system rated for 2,000 people. The wooded surrounding area included 1,000 olive trees and 500 lemon trees. The hotel provided 160 jobs to residents of the nearby village of Didyma. For a brief season, this obscure Argolid cove was drawing European visitors who knew exactly where to find it.

The reactions began almost immediately. The Orthodox church, led in the region by Metropolitan Ierotheos of Hydra and Spetses Islands, became the focal point of opposition. Residents of Didyma joined in. Their objections centered on what they described as indecency — though the hotel grounds were fenced to prevent guests from encountering locals. A particular grievance, according to the source, was the claim that curious visitors were arriving from around the country, disrupting the area's social fabric in ways that went beyond the resort itself. Whether or not those claims accurately characterized what was happening, the perception was powerful enough to mobilize the community. The confrontation came when villagers, under the guidance of the church and some local politicians, arrived at the beach by boat and drove the guests away. It was, in retrospect, a moment when post-dictatorship Greece was discovering how much it disagreed with itself about what modernization was supposed to look like.

The closure cascaded outward. Three other hotels in the surrounding area shut down in the aftermath, their operations undermined by the sudden collapse of the area's tourist economy. A subsequent owner attempted to run the Salanti as a conventional hotel, but the reputation stuck and the venture struggled. The building now stands abandoned, its interior reportedly used as a dumpsite. By 1981, one year after the confrontation, many of the residents who had most vigorously opposed the hotel were expressing regret — not about their values, perhaps, but about the practical consequences of 160 jobs disappearing from a small village in one summer. The beach itself remains: the limestone peninsula, the church of Agios Nikolaos at its tip, the wetland, the Aegean light. Prehistory runs deep here. The hotel is a more recent layer, and a thinner one.