White Tower of Thessaloniki
Fifteenth-century Ottoman sea tower, once a prison, now a six-floor city museum with a rooftop terrace.
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This audio guide to the White Tower of Thessaloniki follows the people who worked and were held inside its walls, from the Janissary garrison of the early nineteenth century to the prisoners of its years as a jail. It centres on one inmate around eighteen ninety and the job he was offered. Best heard standing right against the curved stone at the tower's foot.
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