El Greco Hotel

Hotel Address:  23, Egnatias Street
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• Rotonda - Agios Georgios ( Ροτόντα - Αγιος Γεώργιος): 1,3 The Rotonda was built in 306 AD as a Mausoleum or Pantheon for Emperor Galerius. As the name suggests, it is a circular building. It was converted into a Church during the reign of Theodosius the Great and for many years it was the cathedral of ...
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• Thessaloniki Archaeological Museum: 1 Thessaloniki's Archaeological Museum host some of the most impressive ancient Macedonian and Roman treasures of the area. Designed by the Patroklos Karantinos, the Archaeological Museum was thrown open on the 27th of October 1962, a year after its ...
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• Acheiropoietos: 1 "Acheiropoietos" is a church that is dedicated in Virgin Mary and that means it was not made by human hand and the title is probably referring to the cult image. The church was built on the remains of Roman baths during the 5th century. Panagia ...
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• Arch and Tomb of Galerius: 1.3 The Arch of Galerius and the Tomb of Galerius are neighboring monuments in the city of Thessaloniki, in the province of Central Macedonia in northern Greece. The Tomb of Galerius is better known as the Rotonda, the Church of Agios Georgios or St. ...
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• The Statue of Alexander the Great: 1 The statue of Alexander the Great riding his horse Voukefala is one of the city’s symbols. Made by the sculptor Evagnelos Moustaka in 1973, located in front of sea and reveal to the public in 1974 is the most recognised sightseeing of Thessaloniki. ...
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• Agios Minas (Saint Minas - Αγιος Μηνάς): 0,1 Agios Minas is the protector of the commercial market of Thessaloniki. The original church of Agios Minas was built during the 8th century and it was the oldest church of the area. But Agios Minas church along with another one that was built later ...
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• White Tower: 1 On its seafront stands its most famous landmark, the White Tower. It is both the symbol of Thessaloniki and the symbol of the sovereignity of Greece over Macedonia. No one knows exactly when the tower was constructed. In his description of the ...
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• Folklore Museum: 3 Amongst things to do & see in Thessaloniki would be the Folklore Museum offering a glimpse into various aspects of folk life right from their housing to their costumes and dresses, handicraft, instruments etc. used everyday. Apart from focusing on ...
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• Agia Sofia (Saint Sophia - Αγία Σοφία): 1 Saint Sophia (Hagia Sofia) is a large Basilica (with a dome), reminiscent of the Saint Sophia in Instanbul. It was built on the ruins of an earlier gigantic Basilica, which was destroyed in the 6th century A.D. The building started in the 7th ...
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• Panagia Chalkeon (Virgin Mary of the Coppersmiths - Παναγία Χαλκέων): 0,5 Panagia Chalkeon is the Lady of Coppersmiths. And of course is due to the church's location. The surrounding area of the church from the medieval years up to now is city's centre for coppersmiths. It is a longitudinal church of the cross-in-square ...
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• Vlatadon Monastery ( Μονή Βλατάδων): 2 Vlatades brothers, Dorotheos and Markos, were the persons that founded the Monastery in the year 1360. The two brothers were members of the intellectual circle of the Archbishop of Thessaloniki, Grigorios Palamas, who later was raised Saint. He died ...
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• Prophitis Ilias (Prophet Elias - Προφήτης Ηλίας): 1,2 The Byzantine church of Profitis Ilias was built in the 14th century. It was founded as the Catholicon of a monastery. It was believed to belong to Nea Moni Monastery, but it was later identified as the Monastery of Akarnios. The church of Prophet ...
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• Osios David - Latomou Monastery( Όσιος Δαυίδ - Μονή Λατόμου): 1,6 Osios David monastery was founded at the end of the 5th begging of the 6th century. It was built over an earlier roman building and it used to be the catholicon, the main church, of Latomos Monastery. The original church was really small and square, ...
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• NOESIS Thessaloniki Science center and Technology Museum: 6 The Science Centre and Technology Museum of Thessaloniki-Noesis is situated in an area of 14,000m2, in the East exit of Thessaloniki, near the airport and next to Cosmos Mediterranean shopping centre. The philosophy of this institution is to offer ...
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• Thessaloniki Museum of Photography: 0,3 Based, since 2001 in the same building with the Cinema Museum, Photography Museum's history dates back to 1987 where a group of people of "parallaxi" society organized the first photography museum of Thessaloniki. Furthermore, during 1997 when ...
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• Agios Dimitrios ( Saint Demetrios - Αγιος Δημήτριος): 1 Agios Dimitrios is the patron saint of Thessaloniki. The church of Agios Dimitrios dedicated to him occupies pride of place among all the churches in this city. The church has had an eventful history. It was first built just after 313 AD atop the ...
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• The Museum of Byzantine Culture: 1.1 Thessaloniki was the most important European city of the Byzantine Empire, right after Constantinople. The Museum of Byzantine Culture preserves the traces of Byzantine civilisation in Thessaloniki. It also conducts studies and research programmes ...
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• The Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art: 0.7 The Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art it was established in Thessaloniki In 1979. The Museum was originally based in the factory of "Filkeram- Johnson" and the purpose of its foundation was not only to promote Greek and International Contemporary ...
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• Thessaloniki Cinema Museum: 0.3 Back in 1997, when Thessaloniki was Cultural Capital of Europe, the Organizing Committee founded the Cinema Museum in Warehouse 1, in the Port, at the end of the old seafront, very close to Aristotle's Square. Now, the Cinema Museum has its own ...
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• Museum of Plaster Casts: 0.8 The museum of plaster casts is located at the new building of the school of Philosophy of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. There are two rooms in the basement of the university which house the collection of plaster casts, replicas and ...
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• War Museum of Thessaloniki: 2.5 Open since 2000, the museum's goal is to preserve historical memory in Northern Greece. The permanent exhibits include the Modern Greek history from the turn of the century until the Second World War. You can see photographs, uniforms, weapons, ...
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• Teloglio Art Foundation: 1.4 The building that houses the Tellogleion Art foundation museum has been quite recently constructed and it opened its doors to the public in 1999. The cutting-edge architectural design building rises in the center of the town near the city's ...
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• Water Works Museum: 1,5 Open since 2001 it is a relatively new museum. It is also a very interesting museum cause its mission is to provide the visitors a glimpse at the history of supplying water to the city. Visitors can see old electricity circuit switchboards, pumping ...
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• Ataturk Museum: 1 The founder of modern Turkey, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, was actually born in Thessaloniki in a house on Apostolou Pavlou St. This house has been turned into a historical museum. The Ataturk museum is owned by the Turkish state. The building is very old ...
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• Jewish Museum of Thessaloniki: 0.4 The museum is housed in one of the rare Jewish structures that survived the fire of 1917. It was founded to hounor the Sephardic heritage as it evolved in the city after the 15th century. Central to the first floor is a narrative history of the ...
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• Museum of the Macedonian Struggle: 1.1 At a very well preserved Neoclassical building, in the center of Thessaloniki near Mitropolis, is housed the museum of the Macedonian struggle. It opened in 1981 and is privately owned and run by the Association of friends of the museum of the ...
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• Thessaloniki History Center: 1.2 The history center was established by the Municipal Council in 1983. The purpose of the center is to collect, record, rescue and preserve printed, written and audiovisual material that relates to the history of the city and wider area of Thessaloniki....
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• Natural History Museum: 3.5 At a very beautiful district that is called Hillia Dentra (a thousand trees) in the heart of Thessaloniki's suburban forest Seih Sou, the Natural History museum has the best location for its purpose. The museum is inside the zoo on Kedrinos Lofos and ...
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• Art Gallery of the Society for the Macedonian Studies: 1 This was the first organized visual art constitution in the city when it was founded back in 1975. In the same building is also housed the State Theater of Northern Greece. It is purposed to promote the Greek modern art and mostly that of Northern ...
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• The Railway Museum: 3 Since October 2000, in a building that dates back to 1894 in an ex military station operates the Railway Museum. Visitors should not miss to check the impressive map with all Greek railway lines marked on it, in the master-office of the station. ...
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• State museum of Contemporary Art: 1,5 The Statue museum of contemporary art was established in 1997 and it is housed in the renovated building of the old Lazariston Monastery in the area of Stavroupolis in west Thessaloniki. The museum's founding mission is to preserve and display works ...
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• National Bank of Greece/Cultural Center of Northen Greece: 3 At the Vassilisis Olgas St. is standing the restored Villa Ahmet Kapuji which houses the Cultural Center. It was built in 1898 and was used by Eleftherios Venizelos. Afterwards it was used as a high school. The cultural center was established in 1989 ...
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• Municipal Art Gallery: 3.2 Founded as an offshoot of the Municipal Library, the gallery is housed in the Villa Mordoch, which was designed by the architect Xenophon Paionidis. It has more than 1.000 works in its collection. The gallery organizes regular exhibitions of Greek ...
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• Alaca Imaret (Αλατζά Ιμαρέτ): 1.2 Alaca Imaret means Multicoloured (alaca) Poor-house (imaret). It was built in 1484 by Enagolou Ishak Pasha, son of Impraim, and was operated as a mosque, religious school and a poor-house. The name "multicoloured" was due to the coloured stones that ...
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• Hamza Bei Mosque – Alkazar (Χαμζά Μπέι Τζαμί – Αλκαζάρ): 0.8 Built in 1467-68, Hamza Bei is the oldest mosque of Thessaloniki. It was built by Hafsa Hatum, daughter of the military commander Hamza Bei, who named the Mosque after her father. During the 16th century an asymmetrical archade was built around the ...
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• Bei Hamam – Paradise Bathhouses (Μπέη χαμάμ – Λουτρά ο Παράδεισος) : 1 The biggest Hamam (bathhouse) of Thessaloniki was built in 1444 by Sultan Murhat the II, the building was made from building materials taken from byzantine churches. It was a bath house for both men at women there for it has two different rooms. A ...
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• Yeni Hamam – Aigli (Γενί χαμάμ – Αίγλη) : 1.2 The time of the building construction is not exact know. It is built around the 16th century probably by Husreph Kedhuda. It was a bath house for both men at women there for it has two different rooms. The building has a long history with a variety ...
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• The Ancient Forum of Thessaloniki: 1 Constructed towards the end of the second century AD, the Ancient Forum was the seat of the central administration in ancient Thessaloniki. Spread over an area of around two hectares, it was constructed around a paved rectangular square right in the ...
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• Folklore Museum of Edessa: 78 The Folklore museum of Edessa is housed in a two-storey building in the Varosi district. The building was especially granted by the Sivena family. The museum exhibits samples of folk culture of the area. At the first floor the visitors can see ...
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• Wine and Vine Museum of Naousa: 95 The museum opened in December 2002. It is housed at the traditional building of Gianni Boutari at the center of Naousa and all the exhibits are donated by the winemakers and the residents of the area. The museum's aim is primarily educational, to ...
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• Folklore Museum of the Lyceum of Hellenic Women, Naousa: 93 The Folklore museum was founded in 1968 in Naoussa purposed to save and preserve the customs of Naoussa and the surrounding area. It was established by the Lyceum of Hellenic women. The museum's exhibits are authentic local costumes, clothing, ...
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• Lake Kerkini: 85 lake Kerkini is one important wetland, ideal for birding tours and short trips to the nature. There are many accommodation options in the area, as also many activities to enjoy nature.
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• Archaological Musuem of Serres: 72 The museum is housed in the Bezesten in Eleftherias Square in Serres. The Bezesten is a fifteenth century building which was erected by the Ottoman Turks and there are only two left in Greece now, one is in Thessaloniki and the other is in Serres. It ...
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• War Museum of Kilkis: 53 The museum was built in 1966 and was complemented and extended in 1971. It belongs to the Ministry of National Defense, which has the responsibility of the museum's operation. The visitor can see at the two adjacent halls of documents of the Balkan ...
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• Archaeological Museum of Amphipolis: 99 Only two kilometers from the Thessaloniki-Kavala national highway is located the Archaeological museum of Amphipolis. It is just above the mouth of the River Strimon where the ancient town Amphipolis used to be. The building that the museum is ...
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• Prespes Lakes National Park: 240

• Alistrati Cave: 135

• Elatia - Frakto Virgin Forest: 215

• Byzantine Museum of Veria: 72 The museum opened its doors in 2002 in Veroia. The building that it is housed is the old Markos mill adjacent to the city walls. The monuments that date from Byzantine and Post-Byzantine times are found in Veroia and the surrounding area. The museum ...
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• Folklore and Historical Musuem of Arnea: 72 The museum is located at the center of Arnea and is housed in an 18th century two-storey mansion. At the ground floor there are exhibits of representative samples of Arnea's architectural heritage. There are also traditional folk instruments and ...
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• Anthropological Museum of Petralona: 47 It was established in 1978 and its exhibits include models of the mausoleum of the ancient man of Petralona, the oldest fire (1 million years old and more), stone and bone tools which were found in New Triglia of Chalkidiki (11 million years old). ...
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• Agion Oros - Mt Athos: 125 Agion Oros (Holy Mountain) or Mt Athos is a self-governed monastic community. In the 20 monasteries and hundreds of other smaller churches and herrmitages some of the most valuable and rare relics are preserved. Access is only allowed to a controled ...
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• Vergina: 79 In Vergina you can visit the Royal Macedonian Tombs, and amongst them the tomb of Philip II, father of Alexander the Great. The imposing underground museum also hosts amazing handicrafts, including Philip's armour and golden crown. The nearby ...
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• Ancient Pella: 45 Ancient Pella was one of the two more important capitals of ancient Macedonians, and birthplace of Alexander the Great. The archaeological site is very easy to find, as it is located right next to the main road. Pella is famous for the magnificent ...
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• Philippi: 160 Philippi is a major archaeological site, located near the city of Kavala, in Eastern Macedonia.
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• Folk Museum of Xanthi: 211 The building of the Folk Museum of Xanthi is an exhibit itself. The mansions of Kougioumtzoglou and Kaloudi were built in 1877 from Konstantino Kougioumtzoglou, one of the biggest tobacco traders of Xanthi. The twin mansions are a perfect ...
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• Municipal Art Gallery of Xanthi: 211 The Municipal Art Gallery of Xanthi is named after Christo Pavlidi a named local painter who him and his heirs donated many of his works to the gallery. The building of the Gallery is one of the oldest buildings in Xanthi and is perfect sample of the ...
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• The Open Air Market in Xanthi: 211 The flea market of Xanthi has its roots back to the Ottoman period and it is held every Saturday in the centre of the city. The open air market or Pazari, as it called, until 1920 was held every Sunday in the central square of Xanthi. Over the years ...
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• Folklore Museum of Polygyros: 63 At the center of Polygyros is located its Folklore museum and is housed in the two-storey Karagani house. The first floor of the house represents an urban house of the early 20th century and in particular the lounge, the bedroom, the kitchen and in a ...
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