Casa Bianca
Eclectic early twentieth-century mansion with neo-Renaissance and French touches, now an art gallery.
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This guide to Casa Bianca in Thessaloniki follows Aline Fernandez Diaz, daughter of a wealthy Jewish industrialist, and the Greek army officer she met by chance on a tram in the years before the First World War. It touches the Exohon district of country villas where her father built this house, the scandal their romance caused, and the children who later filled its rooms. Best heard from the pavement, facing the ornate facade.
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