Navarino Square
Open-air ruins of a Roman imperial palace beside a buried chariot-racing track, now a student hangout.
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This guide to Navarino Square in Thessaloniki stands you among the ruins of the palace of Galerius, the Roman emperor who made the city his base around the year three hundred. It turns on a racetrack scandal from the late fourth century, when a garrison general named Butheric jailed the town's favourite charioteer. Along the way you'll meet the emperor Theodosius in distant Milan and Bishop Ambrose. Best heard beside the curved apse of the palace hall.
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