Proxenou Koromila
Café-lined downtown street of a former consulate mansion, once a nightlife strip and luxury row.
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This guide to Proxenou Koromila in Thessaloniki starts on a summer night in eighteen ninety, when the Greek consulate here burns down, and asks who paid for what rose in its place. It follows Lambros Koromilas, a publisher's son turned consul-general who ran far more than paperwork from these rooms, and the banks and businesses that came after him. Best heard standing outside the neoclassical mansion beside the church of Saint Gregory Palamas.
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