In 1917, a devastating fire reduced the entire centre of the city to ashes.

Thessaloniki was never the same: 73,000 people ...

The 4th-century Roman emperor Galerius commissioned these two structures as an imperial precinct linked to his Thessaloniki palace. Archaeologists have found substantial ...

Ottoman Monuments
Bey Hamam – Loutra Paradissos Junction of Egnatias Street & Aristotelous Street. (1444). Built by Sultan Murad II. It ...

Odysseas Elytis

music by Mikis Theodorakis 

Jewish Monuments

Agora Modiano Junction of 24 Ermou Street, Vassileos Irakleiou Street & Komnenon Street. (1922). The largest indoor market of Thessaloniki ...

GIORGOS SEFERIS

music by MIKIS THEODORAKIS 

The Rotunda was a massive circular structure with a masonry core and an oculus like Rome's Pantheon. It has gone ...

The Aristotelous Square 

is the principal city square of Thessaloniki and is located on Nikis avenue (on the city's waterfront), in ...

Hellenistic Era

Thessaloniki was founded as an urban centre by Cassander, a general of Philip II, in 316 BC and named ...

The most important administrative, cultural, and business centre in northern Greece is Greece's second-largest city.
A midsize city situated on the ...