Thessaloniki Sites

It was probably built by architect Mimar Sina in 1536 and it has a height of 34 meters and a perimeter of 70 meters. In the 18th century it was... View Project

Triumphal, commemorating arch built to honor Emperor’s Galerius great victory against the Persians in 305 AC. It was located vertical to Egnatia road (the basic road of Roman Empire) and... View Project

Rotunda was built in 306 AC and it was part of Galerius’ Palace. It is said that it was meant to be his Mausoleum or a Pantheon, like the one... View Project

The administrative and commercial center of Roman Thessaloniki. The forum was organized around a huge square. Two floor arcades were standing around the square, housing commercial stores. The forum was... View Project

It was built in the 7th century BC on the spot where an older church was standing. It was built as a reminder of Agia Sofia church in Istanbul and... View Project

It was built in 313 BC as a small chapel, over the ruins of a Roman bath. Two centuries later it was reconstructed and expanded by Bishop Leontios. The church... View Project

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk was the leader of the Turkish nationalistic movement, the founder and first president of Turkish Democracy. The house were Kemal was born, dates back to 1870 and... View Project

The city’s famous walls were built during the Roman era and were modified and expanded by the Byzantines. They were protecting the city from every side, with high towers and... View Project

Building complex from the Ottoman era of the city. It included a mosque, a madrasah and an imaret, but only the imaret still survives. An imaret was an institution providing... View Project

Famous sculpture by Zogolopoulos. They were raised in 1997, when Thessaloniki became Europe’s Capital of Culture. They are made of stainless steel and after the promenade’s renovation, they were moved... View Project

It stands on the northeast corner of the walls, inside the Acropolis. The complex includes the byzantine castle with its ten towers and the prison facilities built inside and outside... View Project

The construction begun around 400AC and the complex included Galerius Palace, administration rooms and even temples. The complex covers an area of 150,000 square meters.

The Museum was founded to honor the rich and creative Sephardic heritage as it evolved in the city after the 15th century. It is housed in one of the rare... View Project

It was built in 1962 on the rules of modernism. It exhibits findings from excavations all around Macedonia, including the royal graves of Vergina. Marble statues, altars, golden crowns and... View Project

It was designed by Konstantinos Krokos and inaugurated in 1994. It is an awarded work of industrial and exhibitional design. The museum contains sculptures, frescos, coins, paintings, religious paintings, inscriptions... View Project