Agora Modiano
Covered nineteen-twenties market hall under a steel roof, revived as a food hall with cafes and stalls.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Agora Modiano in Thessaloniki opens in 2017, when the city condemned the market hall as dangerous and a private buyer stepped in anyway. It reaches back to the 1920s, to the steel brought from Belgium and an opening party where the rich and the poor were fed very differently. Best heard standing under the glass roof, where the daylight falls.
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