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The White Tower
Thessaloniki Waterfront Area
T he city’s 23 centuries of con- on UNESCO’s World Heritage Site List.
People of various cultures, ethnic origins
tinuous existence were marked
by periods of great prosperity al-
and religions have settled in Thessaloniki
ternated with wartime and oc-
ter. The second largest city in Greece
cupation. Thessaloniki was the most im- and helped shape its multicultural charac-
portant city in the Byzantine Empire is today a thriving cultural, commercial
-second only to Constantinople- and its and educational hub in northern Greece.
impressive early Christian and Byzantine
monuments have earned it an inscription Travel to Thessaloniki on the occasion
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