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Hospital Agios Dimitrios

Built between 1900 and 1903 its name was initially Hospital of Poor Foreign (GUREBA HASTAHANESI) or HAMIDIYE later BALEDIYE. This plot included the building of lyssiatreio (today Kindergarten of Ano […]

Tsinari

Area of Ano Poli (Upper/Old City), which took its name from the platanus (Cinar) planted there in the early 20th century. The neighborhood retains its old-world picturesqueness with its small […]

Government House

The imposing building designed and built in 1891, by the Italian’s architect Vitaliano Poselli Neoclassical and Renaissance style, to house the headquarters of the Turkish district commissioner, the Government House […]

Old School of Philosophy, AUTH

Built in 1887 to house the Ottoman School of Public Administration. In 1927, the impressive edifice, built by the Italian architect Vitaliano Poselli, hosted the newly established University of Thessaloniki. […]

Bey Hammam (Paradise Baths)

The first Ottoman bath in Thessaloniki and the largest preserved in Greece, with separate compartments for men and women. It was built in 1444 by Sultan Murad II and operated […]

Hamza Bey Tzami (Alkazar)

Also known as ‘Alkazar’ from the homonymous movie theater that operated in its colonnaded courtyard for several decades, the Hamza Bey Tzami (Alkazar) was built in 1467 by the daughter […]

Pasha Hammam

It was built by the commander of Thessaloniki Tsezeri Kasim Pasha in the decade 1520 – 1530 initially as a single bath and later with the appropriate additions as a […]