Aristotelous Square
Grand seafront plaza lined with arcaded Byzantine-style facades, rebuilt after a devastating fire.
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This guide to Aristotelous Square in Thessaloniki begins on a summer afternoon in nineteen seventeen, in a refugee's kitchen yard uphill from the sea. It follows the Jewish quarter of a city only five years out of Ottoman rule, Prime Minister Eleftherios Venizelos, and the French architect Ernest Hébrard he called in. Stand in the middle of the square, facing uphill toward the Upper Town walls.
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