In 1537, the Jewish poet Samuel Usque described Thessaloniki as the “city and mother of Israel”. Today, monuments and buildings highlight the stories of people that once walked the same streets that residents and visitors walk by every day, underlining the importance of history and of keeping the memory alive… The neighborhood of Louloudadika and […]

How can someone talk about the neighborhood of Vardaris, when so many important artists and writers have lived in it, walked it step by step, bringing it to life with ink on paper? My relationship with Vardaris was only a relationship of separation every time I left Thessaloniki behind and a relationship of joy every […]

We often cross the streets of the city, the names of which we know, but without thinking about the relationship of these names to the city, when it was made and what the choice of this naming signifies. With the incorporation of the former Ottoman city into the Greek state in 1912, the redrawing of […]

Thermaikos gulf is the reason why Thessaloniki has always been an important commercial, economic and military center. Travelers, traders, ship crews crossed its waters for centuries and experienced the beauty of the city from the sea side. But who would think today that the bottom of Thermaikos gulf could reveal the history of the city? […]