The lesson you learn from your duties as an anthologist is this: Nicosia, along with all the branches of its genetic elements, cannot be viewed solely visually; it must be understood tangibly. You must feel it with your touch, to touch it and breathe it in like a current of life and as "knowledge that multiplies sorrow." This means that you bear the consciousness of great pain, as it is expressed in the pages of its adventurous history.

Kyriakos Charalambidis composes the psychological portrait of the last divided capital of Europe, as Nicosia is often called, and reconstructs the various eras of its life through snapshots captured in the writings of literary figures, historians, and travelers.