Ataturk Museum of Thessaloniki
Pink Ottoman-era birthplace house of Turkey's founder, with a courtyard pomegranate tree and period rooms.
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This guide to the Ataturk Museum in Thessaloniki skips the famous rooms upstairs and starts in the courtyard, with a pomegranate tree said to have been planted by Atatürk's father, Ali Rıza Efendi. It follows the boy born in this house in eighteen eighty-one, and a forestry scientist from Istanbul who came, much later, to examine the tree. Best heard standing in the courtyard, before you step inside.
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