Memories and Images: Walk in Patras from the Turkish occupation until today

Patras, the city of our heart! The city "carries" a great history from ancient times. In recent years, Patras with its "black eye" managed to become one of the most important cities in Greece. This old town, before the consideration ruined its beauty and glamor, was very similar to the European cities of southern Italy, southern France, but also paranoid Germany. It is the one that from a Turkish city, when it was liberated in 1828, turned into a European city within a few years.

A multinational city created with Greeks from all over Greece, but also with Germans, English, French, Jews and Catholics, who settled in it. The city is built, decorated and "breathes" every day at a European pace. The people live their daily lives in the midst of suffering and the struggle for survival, but at the same time they live and rejoice whenever they can. Operas in his theater, but also coffee aman, coffee sandan, Karagiozis, without forgetting of course Halloween and Carnival. The carnival dance given at the Fakiri house in 1836 reflects this society that knows how to live with the "heavy" and her "light" breaths. "The dance has begun. Three musicians form the orchestra; one played the violin, the other the clarinet and the other double bass in a nice concert. Stoeb showed his undeniable ability both in waltz and in other dances, gallops, etc. zero of the polka dot mazurka except. He danced these dances after most of the beautiful girls of Patras, whose twenty-four-year-old Bavarian excels in his dancing ability. The cuticle was the culmination of the whole dance party. They admired the open-heartedness and the broad perception of the girls of Patras, in contrast to the modesty of the people ".