What is the significance of one's birthplace? The birthplace is the launchpad to reach and explore your personal world. Or more precisely, to discover it. Here, you learn what a road is, with its sounds and adventures, what a sidewalk is, what buildings with their secrets and stories are, and most importantly, who the people living beside you are.

Sixty-six writers write about their Birth City. They write about how it was then and how it is today. They capture experiences they lived and insights gained while growing up in their place. Sixty-six stories, touching, nostalgic, joyful, incredibly clever, human. By reading them, you will feel like a child again, remember the dreams you had, and bring your own memories to the surface...

Childhood plays, as we know, a significant role in shaping a person's personality. For, as our Nobel laureate poet Giorgos Seferis says, homeland is our childhood years. (From the preface by the editor, Elpidophoros Intzebelis.)

“It is your place, it is even something more biological, more primitive, the attraction of your land - something like the magnet of fire in the cold, like hunger and like longing. I had never felt this feeling before, like this... Everything pulls me back. As I rest the pen right now, I identify with the twelve-year-old child who first opened a notebook to write his diary…” [Giorgos Seferis, Merae E', 1 JANUARY 1945 - 19 APRIL 1951, 17/10/1950, ed. Ikaros, p. 213]. (From the back cover of the book.)