Archaia Agora Square
Busy city square above an unexcavated stretch of the Roman forum, beside its sunken ruins.
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This guide to Archaia Agora Square in Thessaloniki starts with a nickname that outlived the building it was named for, and a construction crew digging foundations in the nineteen sixties. It reaches back to the Roman forum where the city traded, argued and watched gladiators, and to the carved pillars a French scholar carried off in eighteen sixty-four. Best heard at the railings above the sunken ruins.
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