Bedesten of Thessaloniki
Six-domed Ottoman covered market of stone, still trading in fabrics, jewellery and flowers.
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This guide to the Bedesten of Thessaloniki looks up, past the shop counters, to the six lead-covered domes of a fifteenth-century Ottoman covered market built to guard valuables and documents. It follows the workmen who climbed onto that roof, the marks they cut into the metal, and the scholar who set out to read them in the nineteen-eighties. Best heard standing in the central hall, where you can see the domes overhead.
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