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Thessaloniki itinerary

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  1. 1

    White Tower - The Symbol of Thessaloniki

    The Lefkos Pyrgos (White Tower) is Thessaloniki's symbol - a 34-metre cylindrical Ottoman fortress on the seafront, originally built in the 15th century as part of the city walls. The tower was painted white in 1890 to…

    Address
    Leoforos Nikis, 546 21 Thessaloniki
    Nearest transit
    OASTH Bus 5 / 12 to White Tower stop, 1-min walk
  2. 2

    Aristotelous Square - The City's Grand Plaza

    Aristotelous Square is Thessaloniki's grand civic plaza - a 100,000 sq m semicircle facing the Thermaic Gulf, designed by French architect Ernest Hebrard in 1918 after the Great Fire of 1917 destroyed two-thirds of the…

    Address
    Plateia Aristotelous, 546 24 Thessaloniki
    Nearest transit
    Aristotelous Metro Station (opened November 2024), 1-min walk
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    Rotunda and Arch of Galerius

    The Rotunda of Galerius (also called the Church of Agios Georgios) is one of Thessaloniki's 15 UNESCO-listed Paleochristian monuments. Built around AD 306 as part of the imperial complex of Roman emperor Galerius, the…

    Address
    Plateia Agiou Georgiou, 546 35 Thessaloniki
    Nearest transit
    Sintrivani Metro Station, 5-min walk
  4. 4

    Ano Poli (Upper Town) and the Byzantine Walls

    Ano Poli is Thessaloniki's medieval upper town - the only neighbourhood that survived the Great Fire of 1917 - a maze of stepped lanes, Ottoman-era timber houses (still inhabited), Byzantine churches, and the eastern…

    Address
    Eptapyrgio, 546 34 Thessaloniki
    Nearest transit
    OASTH Bus 23 from Eleftherias Square to Ano Poli, 15 min
  5. 5

    Hagia Sophia of Thessaloniki - The Byzantine Cathedral

    The Hagia Sophia of Thessaloniki is an 8th-century Byzantine basilica - the city's UNESCO-listed cathedral, modelled directly on Constantinople's Hagia Sophia (537) and one of the oldest surviving Byzantine churches in…

    Address
    Plateia Agias Sofias, 546 22 Thessaloniki
    Nearest transit
    OASTH Bus 5 / 12 to Agia Sofia stop, 1-min walk
  6. 6

    Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki

    The Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki holds the most important Macedonian antiquities outside Vergina - 8,000 sq m of Bronze Age, Iron Age, Macedonian, Roman, and Hellenistic finds from across northern Greece. The…

    Address
    Manoli Andronikou 6, 546 21 Thessaloniki
    Nearest transit
    OASTH Bus 5 to Archaeological Museum stop, 1-min walk
  7. 7

    Ladadika - The Old Quarter Tapas District

    Ladadika (literally 'oil shops') was Thessaloniki's commercial Jewish quarter for 400 years until WWII - 1,200 olive oil and grain warehouses around the port. After 1941 the Sephardic Jewish community was deported to…

    Address
    Ladadika, 546 25 Thessaloniki
    Nearest transit
    Eleftherias Square (10-min walk west of Aristotelous)
  8. 8

    Modiano Market - Thessaloniki's Historic Food Hall

    Modiano Market is Thessaloniki's historic covered market - a 1922 belle epoque iron-and-glass structure designed by architect Eli Modiano (the son of a wealthy Sephardic family). After 50 years of decline, the market…

    Address
    Ermou and Vasileos Irakleiou Street, 546 24 Thessaloniki
    Nearest transit
    Aristotelous Metro Station, 3-min walk
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    Church of Agios Dimitrios - Thessaloniki's Patron Saint

    The Hagios Demetrios is Thessaloniki's largest church (43 by 33 metres) and the city's UNESCO-listed cathedral built on the spot where Saint Demetrius (the city's patron) was martyred in AD 306. The original 5th-century…

    Address
    Agiou Dimitriou 97, 546 33 Thessaloniki
    Nearest transit
    OASTH Bus 23 to Agiou Dimitriou stop, 1-min walk
  10. 10

    Vergina Royal Tombs - Day Trip to the Macedonian Kingdom

    The Royal Tombs of Vergina are the UNESCO-listed burial site of the kings of Macedon - including Tomb II, identified by archaeologist Manolis Andronikos in 1977 as the tomb of Philip II of Macedon (Alexander the Great's…

    Address
    Aigai Polycentric Museum, Vergina 590 31
    Nearest transit
    KTEL bus from Macedonia bus terminal (Bus 78 from Aristotelous to terminal, ~2 hours each way)

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