East Byzantine Walls of Thessaloniki
Late Roman brick-banded ramparts with surviving towers, once part of an eight-kilometre circuit.
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This guide to the East Byzantine Walls of Thessaloniki turns on a few lines of Greek once set on one of the eastern towers, signed by a man called Hormisdas, and on the odd thing he chose to boast about. It follows the scholars who have argued for decades over who he really was, from the late Roman army to the highest civil offices of the empire. Best heard standing close to the wall, where the bands of brick and reused stone are within reach.
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