Year of construction: 1960-1963

A few words about the construction: The house was designed by the architect Panagis Manouilidis. It is a detached house with an inner courtyard as its main feature. This sheltered space was central to the life of the house, as the poet received his family and friends there, as well as famous personalities such as the poet Ezra Pound. The current owner and resident of the house is Ms Anna Londou, daughter of Maro Seferis (the poet's wife) from her first marriage. The spot was ideal for the tranquility Seferis sought and was effectively inhabited in 1962, when the couple returned to Greece from London.

A few words about the Poet: Giorgos Seferis (1900 - 1971), a member of the literary generation of the 1930s, was a Greek diplomat and poet. He appeared in Greek letters in 1931 with the poetry collection Strofi (Turn). The complete renewal of his poetic writing began with Mythistorima (Novel) in 1935, where, influenced by Anglo-Saxon modernism (Eliot, Pound), he abandoned rhyme and meter and created his own personal style in free verse. He studies history and literature in depth. His poetry, pessimistic and melancholic, is distinguished by the simplicity of its expressive means and its calm and low tone and reflects the poet's anxieties. The destruction of Smyrna and the Hellenism of Asia Minor, the uprooting of refugees, the two world wars left their mark on his poetry. Today he is considered one of the most prominent poets, who opened new horizons in modern Greek poetry. The Nobel Prize for Literature in 1963 was a recognition of his poetic merit.