Agios Pavlos Trip Overview
Starting from the Pashas’s Gardens one of the most famous and strange monument of city, we yearn to connect all places, spaces, streets, buildings, baths and market with the Ottoman whiff in the city. Walk around through in visible and invisible traces of the Ottoman stories, everyday life, religious rituals, traditions and great moments in the old flea markets. We walk in the Upper town and in the center of Thessaloniki and we visit and admire the city’s Othoman monuments.
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Duration: 4 hours
Starts: Agios Pavlos, Greece
Trip Category: Cultural & Theme Tours >> Cultural Tours
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Starting from the Pashas’s Gardens one of the most famous and strange monument of city, we yearn to connect all places, spaces, streets, buildings, baths and market with the Ottoman whiff in the city. Walk around through in visible and invisible traces of the Ottoman stories, everyday life, religious rituals, traditions and great moments in the old flea markets. We walk in the Upper town and in the center of Thessaloniki and we visit and admire the city’s Othoman monuments.
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Stop At: Oi Kipoi Tou Pasa, Zografou Elenis, Thessaloniki 546 34 Greece
On the northern side of Agios Dimitrios hospital and east to Kastron street, very near to Saint Paul church, it is a green oasis with pine trees and unusual, half-ruined stone structures. This imaginative, Gaudí-style architecture centers around an ornate fountain encircled by a tunnel leading nowhere. There is also a cistern to collect rainwater, a seating area, and a small gate leading underground. The Pasha’s Gardens were constructed in 1904 and they are the only integrated creation of the architectural trend of visionary architecture in Thessaloniki. The name of the garden suggests the pleasant feeling the position of the garden gives to visitor, with children’s corners for recreation and a seating area to admire the views of the city.
Duration: 1 hour
Stop At: Alatza Imaret, Kassandrou 91-93, Thessaloniki Greece
The Alaca İmaret mosque has the shape of an inverted T and comprises of a rectangular main prayer hall, which is covered by two large domes, four lateral appartments, covered also with domes, which served the rations and the holy teaching, and a pillar-based arcade in front, which has on its roof five small domes. All domes were originally covered with lead sheets. In the southwestern corner of the building there was a minaret, which was demolished between 1925 and 1930, as it happened with other minarets of Thessaloniki, thus surviving mowadays only its base. The face of the minaret was decorated with colorful stones forming lozenges, element rarely found in Ottoman architecture. It was the most impressive building of its kind in town, as it turns out both from old photographs and the enthusiastic descriptions of travelers. The monument was internally decorated with murals, which depicted simple floral patterns and inscriptions with quotes from the Koran.
Duration: 1 hour
Stop At: Bey Hamam Aristotelous Square, Thessaloniki 546 31 Greece
Built in 1444, Bey Hamam is the oldest off all the Ottoman baths in Thessaloniki and one of the most important buildings that integrate Ottoman architecture. It is located in the center of the city north of Aristotelous Plaza right across the paleo-christian temple of “Panagia Halkeon”.
Duration: 1 hour
Stop At: Bezesteni Market, Venizelou and Solomou, Thessaloniki Greece
The Ottoman era of the city’s history left a very important architectural legacy of several buildings that still remind us of the rich multicultural past of Thessaloniki. Bezesteni is perhaps one of the most characteristic samples of many buildings that can be found in several parts of the historic center and deserve more attention as they are small treasures indeed. Built by Sultan Mehmet II in 1455 – 1459 AD it is one of the oldest Ottoman buildings still standing in the center of Thessaloniki. It was used by the Ottomans for a number of commercial and financial activities thus making it a very important center for every region that had one.
Duration: 1 hour
