This book unfolds the historical course of the city of Piraeus over time and space, with rich material highlighted by texts of historical, archaeological, and folklore content, indicating its future prospects.
Piraeus-Port of our Heart! Piraeus was loved by many, all those uprooted from their special homelands, Maniots, Cretans, Asia Minor Greeks, Chians, Epirotes, and others, who came to find their fortune near the capital of Greece.
Thus, Piraeus has been and remains a modern living amphictyony, which managed to assimilate all these small homelands of its inhabitants, with their particular characteristics.
We feel more freedom in Piraeus because we have the sea, which surrounds it and gives all of us who live here oxygen, hope, freedom, perspective, and strength.

"Can the history of a city, like Piraeus, fit into the pages of a book? Certainly not. The history of a city, as well as its inhabitants, is recorded in the traces of an entire journey through time, and the historian, the researcher, the archaeologist, have the role of recording and illuminating these basic parameters.
This edition aims to achieve both of the above goals, focusing on the crucial areas of Culture and Maritime.
By reading the pages of this edition, you see the course of Piraeus over time. A fascinating journey with alternations and fluctuations, which gives the reader the opportunity to learn and be informed."

From the preface of the Mayor of Piraeus, Vassilis I. Michaloliakos