Folklife & Ethnological Museum of Macedonia & Thrace (Villa Giacomo Modiano)
Art Nouveau-tinged banker's villa with a sea-facing double loggia, now a museum of traditional rural life.
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This guide treats the Villa Modiano in Thessaloniki, home of the Folklife and Ethnological Museum of Macedonia and Thrace, as an object in its own right: the banker's house Eli Modiano designed for Jaco Modiano in the early nineteen hundreds. It reads the facade, the ironwork and the unusual floor plan, and follows the villa through royal, official and military hands. Best heard from the pavement on Vasilissis Olgas Avenue, where you can take in the whole front.
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