Kapani Market
Arcaded Ottoman-era food market of spice, olive and fish stalls, ouzo bars and old trading lanes.
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This guide to Kapani Market in Thessaloniki asks why the old flour market carries a second, official name, and follows it back to Georgios Vlalis, a Greek merchant in the Ottoman city of the spring of eighteen twenty-one. It touches the Filiki Eteria, the secret society behind the Greek War of Independence, and a revolt in nearby Halkidiki. Best heard under the arcades, within earshot of the stallholders calling their prices.
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