To Pikap

Thessaloniki


This grab-bag of groovy businesses, anchored on a gregariously smoky cafe-bar, also accommodates a record shop, a few racks of designer T-shirts and even a radio station over two levels of clean lines and funky furniture.


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1. Monastirioton Synagogue

0.13 MILES

The only surviving one of Thessaloniki's 45 pre-WWII synagogues owes its preservation to the fact that it was used as a warehouse by the Red Cross. Spared…

2. Roman Forum

0.17 MILES

As immaculately laid out as you'd expect of the Romans, this rectangular site was the centre of public and commercial Thessaloniki from the 1st to the 4th…

3. Church of Agios Dimitrios

0.19 MILES

This enormous 7th-century basilica honours Thessaloniki’s patron saint. A Roman soldier, Dimitrios was killed around AD 306 at this former Roman bath site…

4. Yeni Hammam

0.22 MILES

An atmospheric 16th-century structure, this former Turkish bath has great acoustics. Today it houses a bar that's gone to great lengths to turn the lovely…

5. Bey Hammam

0.27 MILES

Bey Hammam was built in 1444, making it Thessaloniki’s oldest Turkish bathhouse and reputedly the largest remaining in Greece. Externally squat and…

6. Modiano Market

0.32 MILES

The city's largest indoor market sits on the ashes of former Jewish neighbourhood Kadi, which burned down in the 1917 fire. The architect Eli Modiano…

7. Church of the Panagia Achiropiitos

0.36 MILES

This basilica-style 5th-century Byzantine church, built over Roman baths and one of the oldest in Greece, has notable mosaics and frescoes. The name,…

8. Yad Lazikaron

0.36 MILES

Opposite the Modiano Market in the former Jewish quarter, Yad Lazikaron opened in 1984 as a practising house of worship dedicated to victims of the…