Drossinis Museum

Here one can find archived all issues of Estia newspaper, of which Drossinis was editor-in-chief and director and which circulated daily since 1894 and had a determining role in Greek life.

The poet's collaborations in Greek publications (Athinai, O Noumas, Scrip, Romios) or foreign ones – Cypriot, French, German and American – can also be found in this hall.

These objects, together with sculptures by Tombros and Vitsaris, surround the poet's figure as portrayed by the sculptor Angeliki Vlachopoulou sitting in his armchair at old age.

[4] Idyllic, interested in folk tradition, rich in emotions, full of sensitive female characters: Amaryllis and Ersie – the heroines of his homonymous works – Morfoula – a tenant farmer's daughter in his family farm in Evia – whom he first met very young and for whom he composed his favourite poem, To Moiroloi tis Omorfis (“The Beauty’s Lament”), and his cousin Drosina, who inspired his most popular poem, which was immediately set to music and is still sung today, Anthismeni Amygdalia (“Blooming Almond Tree”).

Athanasios Diakos (the Greek Independence fighter) represents Drossinis's patriotic ideals, a grandfather sitting in the center of the hall, surrounded by his grandchildren listening to him reading fairy tales, shows his love for children – he himself also wrote fairy tales with educational content – while the small sofa on which he used to sit with Kate Manou, his last muse, signifies his passion for life until his latest years.