Ottoman Thessaloniki is the layer of the city that grew across nearly five centuries of Ottoman rule, and it survives as a thread of baths, mosques, markets, and fountains woven through the Roman and Byzantine streets. The bathhouse on Egnatia, the covered cloth hall behind the shops, the striped minaret above the poorhouse, and the … Read more
Thessaloniki carries three thousand years of layered history, and its museums hold the proof in gold, mosaic, photograph, and film. The Archaeological Museum guards the Derveni Krater and the gold of the Macedonian kings, the Museum of Byzantine Culture reads the city’s long medieval prime, and the White Tower turns its own Ottoman shell into … Read more
The Thessaloniki waterfront is the long seafront promenade that traces the Thermaic Gulf along the southern edge of the city. It splits into two halves: the old waterfront that runs from the passenger port to the White Tower, and the Nea Paralia, the redesigned new waterfront that carries on east to the Concert Hall. The … Read more
The White Tower is the emblem of Thessaloniki, a stone cylinder on the waterfront at the eastern end of the seafront promenade. The statue of Alexander the Great and the park stand close behind it. The tower once anchored the sea walls that ringed the port, and it now stands alone where the ramparts came … Read more