This is a photo blog on the variety of Thessaloniki’s architectural styles. Because the city was full of rich merchants who were always on the move, fin-de-siecle styles such as Art Nouveau and Eclecticism plus later Art Deco arrived in the city as soon as they were in vogue in Western Europe.
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- Eclecticism in Plateia Aristotelous. Moorish and Neoclassical elements compete for your attention
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- Abandoned Art Deco House at 2, Papageorgiou St
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- The Egnatia Palace Hotel, maybe Salonika’s best example of art Deco
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- The abandoned hulk of the Alatini factory that used to belong to one of the richest families in Salonika
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- The Alatini Factory has been left to the graffiti artists
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- Typical early 1900s Neoclassical house in the neighbourhood known as Uziel
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- Villa Morpurgo – Neoclassical building, the first of many on Leoforos Olgas
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- Another Neoclassical edifice with hints of Eclecticism, known in Salonika as Casa Bianca
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- Eclecticism finds its perfection in the Villa Mordoch – currently housing Salonika’s National Gallery
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- Villa Mehmet Kapantzi on Leoforos Olgas. Top floor Viennese Art Nouveau, ground floor Moorish
Thank you..really informative!!
that is not villa morpurgo that is villa allatini
I thought it was. I did this with tour with a knowledgeable guide and Villa Allatini was one difficult to photograph because it was behind trees. I will doublecheck 🙂
Dear John,
I will be leading a bus full of collagues from Istanbul Technical University Faculty of Mechanical Engineering this weekend in T.niki. Prior to our visit I have been collecting information on the city. Due to this reason I browsed the pages of Mazower’s book on Saloniki and read the lines about Abdulhamid’s exile to Alatini’s palace in 1909 by the Jeune Turks. Then I searched this palace on the Internet and fell into your site. If you did not know about this fact maybe it will help.
Greetings,
Murat
Ha! I read Mazower’s book, but I missed this; there is so much material in there. Many thanks for that. It’s good that your comment is in the blog.
Have a great time in Thessaloniki. The Bezesten, the Kemal Ataturk House and the Upper Town might be of particular interest.
H i – I really want to see the building on Papageorgiou Street but cannot find that street on the Thessa map! Can you help? (I’m visiting next week).
Is it not at 40.650395, 22.938287 on Google maps? I must say I can’t remember walking there.