Thessaloniki Waterfront
Seafront promenade of gardens and sculptures stretching east from a landmark Ottoman-era tower.
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This guide to the Thessaloniki Waterfront starts at a small marble bust a few minutes inland from the White Tower, the oldest outdoor sculpture in the modern city. It turns on one spring afternoon in nineteen thirteen, when King George the First of Greece set out on his usual walk with a single aide beside him. Along the way you meet a drifter named Alexandros Schinas and a gendarmerie in a newly Greek city.
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