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Thessaloniki, (also known as Salonika or Saloniki,) has given Greece some of its greatest musicians, artists, poets and thinkers. It has some of the most beautiful beaches and has some of the finest hotels and best restaurants in northern Greece.

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Thessaloniki (520 km. north of Athens) is the second largest city of Greece and the most important centre of the area. Built near the sea (at the back of the Thermaïkos Gulf), it is a modern metropolis bearing the marks of its stormy history and its cosmopolitan character, which give it a special beauty and charm.

A port, a place of higher learning and a cultural giant. For centuries Thessaloniki was also the second city of the Byzantine Empire, deferring only to Constantinople. From that time, the Christian and Byzantine monuments like the Hagios Demetrios and Hagia Sophia churches are part of one large UNESCO World Heritage Site.

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Thessaloniki’s signature monument, the cylindrical, six-storey White Tower shows up on postcards and souvenirs and is the image many people in Greece call to mind when they think of the city. Put up to reinforce the eastern end of the harbour, the tower is right on the water and went up in the 15th century after Thessaloniki was taken by the Ottoman Empire.

A priority for anyone coming to Thessaloniki, the Archaeological Museum has Archaic, Classical, Hellenistic and Roman-era artefacts brought to light in the city and across Macedonia.

Hagios Demetrios, After Thessaloniki’s Patron Saint Demetrius was martyred in the 4th century a church was built on the same site.

Aristotelous Square, As good a place as any to begin a walking tour in Thessaloniki, Aristotelous Square is on the city’s waterfront at Nikis Avenue. This splendid plaza was conceived by the French architect Ernest Hébrard in 1918 although it would be a few decades before the square was edged by its current mansion blocks, which are now all listed buildings.

Behind the ferry port, a brief walk from Aristotelous Square is the historic district of Ladadika, with colourfully painted houses, workshops and warehouses on cobblestone streets with restaurant tables.

In 11 galleries this extraordinary Museum of Byzantine Culture maps the history of the Byzantine Empire with pieces collected from around Macedonia . These come from all periods, from the empire’s foundation by Constantine in the 4th century and the introduction of Christianity as the state religion, to its demise at the hands of the Ottoman Empire in the 15th century.

At the turn of the 4th century Roman Emperor Galerius ordered a rotunda and connecting arch, an ensemble that joined his palace to an imperial precinct at the crossing point of the city’s main axes. The UNESCO-listed Rotunda is a mesmerising space, with a dome 30 metres above the floor that was once pierced with an oculus like the Pantheon in Rome.

On Egnatia & Dimitrios Gounari Street, the Arch of Galerius was raised to celebrate Galerius’ victory over the Sassanid Persians and conquest of the city of Ctesiphon. The monument was an eight-pillared gateway with a triple arch that was coated in brick and then sculpted marble panels.

Today’s Hagia Shophia took on its present architecture as long ago as the 8th century.

In 1881, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the man who would become the founder and leader of the modern secular Turkish state was born at this three storey house on Apostolou Pavlou Street, now incorporated into the Turkish consulate. In 1935 Thessaloniki gave the building to the Turkish state to turn into a museum about his life and career.

Roman forum also known as the Ancient Agora, the centre of public and political life in Roman Thessaloniki was excavated in 1966. The site, developed in two phases in the 2nd and 3rd centuries AD is delineated by the streets, Makedonikis Amynis, Olympou, Filippou, Agnostou Stratiotou.

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