Egnatia
Main east-west avenue tracing the Roman Via Egnatia, with a marble Byzantine street buried beneath.
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This guide to Egnatia Street in Thessaloniki follows the road beneath the road: the Roman highway a senator named Gnaeus Egnatius laid across Macedonia, and the marble avenue it became inside the city. It moves to the twenty-first century, when metro diggers, a mayor, archaeologists and protesters fought over what to do with the stone they had hit. Best heard on the pavement of Egnatia itself, before you walk west toward Venizelou.
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