Τhe refugee settlement of Thebes, a region outside of the Cadmeian acropolis, was built in 1926 to accommodate the families of refugees from the Asia Minor at 1922. It was a vivid area full of scents of homemade food and jasmine, with people who were building their homes with their own hands, people descent, gentle and creative.

Nowadays, the refugee settlement is one of the last saved ones in Greece. It consists of 300 homes, one- or two-stored. The settlement was gradually abandoned by its inhabitants, leaving empty houses, ruins where today immigrants live under very difficult circumstances. 

In the decade of 1980, an effort has been made fro the settlement to be rebuilt and preserved by participatory planning, the only case of such  planning in the whole Greece till now, unfortunately with no result.