Lazaristes Monastery
Former Catholic seminary of French monks, now a theatre stage, art museum and open-air festival venue.
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This guide to the Lazaristes Monastery in Thessaloniki begins in the autumn of 1913, with a last class of students arriving at a building that was not yet finished. You'll meet the French missionaries who raised it from 1886 and the brief they were given in the Balkans. It also follows the other people who later lived behind these walls, from wartime wounded to families who lost their homes. Best heard in front of the facade.
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