This is the city’s largest church and its dedicated to Agios Dimitrios
Dimitrios is guardian of the city, this church is built on the place he died
First church was built after 313 A.D on the ruins of Roman bath
It was converted into a mosque in 1493.
In 1912. It was restored to Christian worship, then it was destroyed in fire 1917.
It started to function again in 1949
Underneath the church is Dimitrios body
The crypt has been an archeological site since its discovery in 1918.
Excavations were found in the north part of the crypt

Its among the oldest churches in Thessaloniki
The first church on this location was constructed in the 3rd centuryA.D
The present church was built in the 8th century
Damages were caused by the earthquake in 1978, today most of the church has been destroyed

This museum aims to collect, preserve and protect objects of the early Christian and Byzantine culture
Collection includes: wooden icons, miniatures, coins, mosaics, paintings, sculptures

This museum is science and technology center
Main goal is to familiarize people with science and technology
We saw historical inventions which people used
In this museum we saw historical cars learned a lot about them (IFA-F9, Cadillac fleetwood, Volvo PV 444, Chevrolet Corvette, and we saw different types of tires and engines)
We also went to tehno park in this museum, which is a place where we can experience illusions and interact with objects

Another one of the Byzantine churches in Thessaloniki is built in 14^th century
The walls are decorated with various brick designs an element that characterizes Byzantine architecture (1261. – 1453.)

The walls of Thessaloniki are the 4 kilometer long city walls surrounding the city during the middle ages, used for protection
On the side facing the sea, city was protected by the sea wall, during the first half of the 15^th century, White tower was built because of the Turkish threat
The line of the sea wall is being uncovered by excavations

Permanent collection has 2000 works by Greek and foreign artists
Apart from permanent collection, the museum held over 100 exhibitions of various artists such as famous american artist Andy Warhol

It was built in the 15th century after the fall of Thessaloniki to the Ottomans in 1430.
Over the years, it was referred to by various names: Tower of Kalamaria, Tower of Blood (when it became a prison and place of execution for convicts
It was built as part of city’s fortification
After the Thessaloniki got free from the Turks in 1912., the tower was whitewashed as a symbolic gesture of purification and that’s how it got its name

This museum initially houses the miniature art collection from the Archaic period and Classical, now it also houses exhibits of Hellenistic and Roman sculptures
It presents Macedonian kingdom (1^st -4^th AD), artifacts from the 2^nd to the 4^th century AD, figurine excavations of clay sculptures (7^th millennium BC to 4^th century AD), artefacts discovered in Poland, Belarus ( 11^th to the 13 century),

Its an military cemetery and World war I memorial park in Thessaloniki
It contains the graves of 20000 Serbian, French, British, Italian, Russian and Greek soldiers who died in the battles on the Macedonian front (1915.-1918.)
The largest part is the Serbian Military graveyard, which contains the remains of 7.500 soldiers
The French sector contains the remains of 8.000 soldiers
The Italian sector contains the remains of the 3.000 soldiers
The British sector holds about 2.000 graves, and there is also Russian sector with about 400 graves
The first keeper of the graveyard was Savo Mihailović, who was the head of the group that was responsible for the exhumation of Serbian soldiers and their transfer to the area of the future military cemetery
He guarded the cemetery until his death in 1928.
His remains are buried in Zeitinlik
The last known keeper was Djordje Mihailovic, Savo’s grandson
Djordje will also be buried here when he dies

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