Pasha’s Gardens
Surreal stone-and-brick garden of fountain, cistern and dead-end arcade by an unknown builder.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Pasha's Gardens in Thessaloniki is about an artist nobody can name: whoever shaped this hillside of rough stone and brick behind an Ottoman-era hospital at the start of the twentieth century, in the same years Gaudí was at work in Barcelona. It follows the clues the maker left in the garden itself and the legends of freemasons, ghosts and catacombs that grew in their absence. Best heard standing by the spring at the centre of the garden.
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