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It's difficult to categorise this place – it includes a workshop, a shop, an exhibition space and a cafe-bar. Run by agriculturist Christos and the graphic designer Nikos, who is also a marvellous carpenter, the pair find old furniture and decoration and turn them into something new and original.


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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. Modiano Market

0.22 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…

3. Roman Forum

0.24 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…

4. Jewish Museum of Thessaloniki

0.24 MILES

This touching museum is housed in one of the few Jewish buildings to survive the great fire of 1917, the former office of Jewish newspaper L'Independent…

5. Bey Hammam

0.25 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. Yad Lazikaron

0.25 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…

7. National Bank of Greece

0.3 MILES

This grand neoclassical temple of mammon is particularly graceful in design. You can pop inside during working hours.

8. Church of Agios Dimitrios

0.3 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…