Louloudadika
Flower stalls ringing a domed sixteenth-century Ottoman bathhouse beside the city's old market.
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This guide to Louloudadika, the flower-market corner of Thessaloniki, stands you beside a sixteenth-century Ottoman bath that went cold in nineteen twelve, and asks what happens to a place built for purification once its fires go out. It moves between Islamic ideas of bathing and the soul, the bath's puzzling Jewish nickname, and the florists who arrived in nineteen fifty-two. Best heard standing among the flower stalls, facing the domes.
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