The Centre of Hellenic Studies, King's College London, in collaboration with Dr Victoia Solomonidis-Hunter and part of the "21 events in 21" series have organised a historic walking tour of C.P. Cavafy's West London (1870-1877).

The walk aims to illustrate the formative years that C.P. Cavafy spent in England as a young boy within the closely linked cosmopolitan Greek community. It will provide an insight to the subsequent development of Κ.Π.Καβάφης, an Alexandrian Greek, into C.P. Cavafy, a Victorian gentleman, a poet and a scholar, writing mostly in Greek and cherished by audiences around the globe to this day.

The walk is scheduled for 11:00 am on Saturday 06 November and will start from Queensbourough Terrace,the house where Cavafy, aged 11, lived with his mother Charikleia and his brothers George, Alexander, Paul and John, from 1874 to 1876.

To view the walk's poster kindly follow the link here and for the map, here.

The walk is free but numbers are limited, and anyone that is interested should reserve a place on this walk by emailing This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.