"This collection of texts and photographs focuses on the small streets of Athens. On streets that I deliberately or accidentally walked. They are part of an indicative anthology of the lesser Athens, that is, the city that feeds the Athenian center but also lives a separate, self-sufficient, and moving life in a quasi-lawful way.

The neighborhoods of Athens are an endless treasure. All the old neighborhoods of Athens are containers of precious urban life experiences, with qualities often underestimated and degraded.

This small book aims to honor the lesser Athens, in the way that those who experienced the grace of the Athenian neighborhood did. These texts aim to honor simplicity and honesty, the basic materials with which the neighborhoods of Athens were built."

(from the preface by Nikos Vatopoulos)