Year of construction: Unknown

A few words about the construction: The building that housed the residence of the poet Andreas Empeirikos is an interwar apartment building with a "square" aesthetic, in dark grey (nowdays). Here, in the small alley of Ainianos in Victoria, in the home of Empeirikos, famous poets and intellectuals of the 30s generation (Nikos Gatsos, Nanos Valaoritis, Nikos Engonopoulos, the Nobelist Odysseas Elytis and others) gathered every Thursday, reading iconic poems such as Nikos Gatsos' Amorgos and Engonopoulos' Bolivar for the first time. It was one of the most prominent literary salons in Athens for many years, especially during the period of the German Occupation. Today the building mainly houses offices.

A few words about the Poet: The poet Andreas Empeirikos (1901-1975) was born into a bourgeois family in 1901. He studied in Athens, Lausanne, London and finally in Paris, where he was introduced to psychoanalysis and the theories of Hegel, Marx and Engels. Around 1929 he became acquainted with the Surrealist circle and the technique of automatic writing, while in 1935 he published his first collection of poems entitled Blast Furnace, introducing Surrealism to the Greek poetic scene, with prose poems full of dynamic images originating from the subconscious. In 1945, he published his second collection of poems entitled Inland. From 1951 to 1957 he lived mainly in Andros, where he completed The Great Eastern, a great novel (2.104 pages long) of unconstrained erotic expression, so daring for its time that it was published in its entirety almost half a century later (he began writing it in 1946 and it was finally published by AGRA in 1990).