Thessaloniki – Via Egnatia, Galerius, White Tower, Ladadika

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Thessalonica is the second-largest city in Greece and the capital of Greek Macedonia, the administrative region of Central Macedonia and the Decentralized Administration of Macedonia and Thrace. Its nickname literally is "the co-capital", a reference to its historical status as the "co-reigning" city of the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire, alongside Constantinople.

The city's landmark is the White Tower, which dates back to the Venetian or early Ottoman period and was probably built by Venetian builders.

Buildings from the Roman period are the remains of the imperial palace with an octagon, the Arch of Galerius with relief depictions of scenes from the battles of Galerius against the Persians in 296/297, a rotunda, built in the 4th century perhaps as a mausoleum of Galerius, then an Orthodox church and later Mosque (remains of a minaret), now a museum.

Buildings from the Ottoman period include the Besesteni, a six-domed covered market that housed mainly cloth merchants and goldsmiths, Turkish baths (Hamama) such as the Giachounti Hamam, Bey Hamam, Pasha Hamam (Phoenix Hamam), the Hamsa-Bey-Tsami mosques, Alatsa-Imaret-Tsami and Yeni Cami (from 1902), the White Tower, Greek Lefkós Pýrgos, the birthplace of Atatürk and the Konak.

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Thessaloniki Hotelia 2015 - Fair Participation

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Thessaloniki Hotelia 2015 - Fair from 12th - 15th of Nov 2015

Within some talks together with the brothers Zampetas to promote local business the possibility of a company presentation at the Thessaloniki Hotelia 2015 has surrendered, an international trade fair, which is, next to the hotel business, also a possibility to increase the leisure and outdoor tourism.

Thessalonica: upper Old Town and Acropolis

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Thessalonica: upper Old Town and Acropolis

The most well-known landmark of the city of Thessalonica, as already repeatedly noted by us, indisputably is the White Tower, which dates back to the Venetian or the early Ottoman period and was probably built by Venetian architects.

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