Ano Poli
Hilltop old quarter of winding lanes, Byzantine walls and a square honouring a rebetiko composer.
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This guide to Ano Poli, Thessaloniki's Upper Town, finds a bouzouki player where you might expect a saint: the composer Vassilis Tsitsanis, who arrived in the city in 1942 as German occupation and famine closed in. It follows his years playing rebetiko in a small ouzo tavern while the occupiers restricted his music. Best heard beside his marble bust at the end of Dimitriou Poliorkitou Street.
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