What happens when you walk through Athens as if seeing it for the first time? This question was explored in the Monday, 27 April episode of the program “Moving Worlds”, with Katerina Batzaki opening the cycle “Historical Routes of Athens.”
Elissaios Sarmas spoke about a city that cannot simply become “smart” if it does not remember. As he explained, these routes are not just walks—they are a way to reconnect everyday life with history and to give public space a renewed meaning.
Dr. Iordanis Papadopoulos took us on a different kind of walk: from Makrygianni to the Areopagus, where ancient thought, more recent conflicts, and the city’s small, almost invisible details coexist—not as the past, but as something that continues to exist in the present.
Against the backdrop of this new reading of the city, the Municipality of Athens is organizing a series of guided tours in May, inviting the public to experience Athens differently—not as a route to be simply covered, but as a story that unfolds step by step.
The journey has begun. And the city… has only just started to speak in a new way.
