The Revolution of 3 September 1843 marked the end of absolute monarchy in Greece. The successful uprising, led by the Greek Army with the support of a large part of the Greek people, resulted in the granting of a constitution and the adoption of universal suffrage.

📚🖼️🗺️🪗What a better way to say goodbye to the summer than by having a stroll at the flea markets in the center of #Athens, and take 'a piece of memory' of the city and a 'taste' of its past.

If you take a stroll at flea markets, it is not just the items and the products per se that are old. Flea markets and antiquarian shops are some of the last and few places where the past has been preserved and it is open for anyone to take a “sip”. Flea markets shall be seen as accessible museums to human senses; you can see the objects, touch them, try to connect yourself with them and wonder about their value in your everyday life. Each of us is not just a potential buyer, but rather a successor of a story– of an object that once used to have value in someone’s life, helping them in their daily tasks, or simply making their space more pleasant.

📚📚On the occasion of his new poetry collection "Losing time" (Enastron Editions, 2025), writer Yagos Platis spoke to Reading Greece about how time in its multi-faceted aspects is poetically expressed in his work, his poetic language and the role of readers and small book–oriented communities as more important than ever.