Ένα σημαντικότατο κτίριο που μας αφορά όλους. Useful Information for English speaking Visitors (more pictures inside): Smyrne, Smyrna, Izmir, today Turkey. A Greek city from the ancient times, that around 1900 was the most cosmopolitan center in the eastern Mediterranean sea, with a high level multi national society and a great neoclassical & European architecture. In 1922 the city was burned by the Turks and the Greeks were forcibly expelled after thousands of years. Today the city remains beautiful but has nothing to do with the past life and architecture. In this article we present a building donated to the Greek state from it's Greek owner. In 1955, after some newer barbarities against Greeks mostly in Constantinople, were a big community remained, the building was given back to Greece to be used as consulate. It was a movement of Turkey with intention to calm down the international reactions for it's barbarities. Today the beautiful quay is full of blocks of flats (demolitions after the fire) and the building is one of the few that remind the original Smyrna. It is under renovation by Greece, despite the crisis, as should for such a building.