Year of construction: Unknown

A few words about the construction: The two-storey neoclassical mansion at the corner of Adrianou and Thespidos streets in the picturesque district of Plaka below Acropolis is the house where the poet Georgios Drosinis was born and lived in the early years of his life. The house used to have a courtyard with a garden with trees that no longer remains, where there also  stood two stone staircases that led to the basement of the house. The poet's favorite part of the house was a window overlooking the street. One morning, Drosinis opened the window and saw his young cousin in the garden, sitting under a tree. The girl shook the blossoming tree and the blossoms fell upon her hair, prompting the then young poet to write the well-known and set to music poem I Mygdalia (The Almond Tree). The ground floor today has been converted into shops, as is the case with many traditional houses in Plaka.

A few words about the Poet: Georgios Drosinis (1859 - 1951), an important poet, prose writer, editor and journalist, came from a family that contributed to the Greek Revolution. From Law School, he went on to study Philosophy and continued his studies in Art History at the Universities of Leipzig, Dresden and Berlin. From 1888 to 1895 he was the owner and director of the literary magazine Hestia, which he converted to a daily newspaper, of which he remained director until 1898. He belonged to the circle of progressive poets, along with Kostis Palamas, who sought to renew the poetic discourse by eliminating the rhetoric and the clear speech of the older Athenian School. His literary work includes poems and prose, while the best known of his poems is the set to music ''I Mygdalia''.