This reminds me that until less than 100 years ago Thessaloniki was still part of the Ottoman Empire/under the Turkish yoke (depending on your point of view). There is nothing Greek. The languages are French and Turkish in Arabic script, which tells you it is before Ataturk's language reform which converted Turkish to Latin script. The fabled (I'll try and avoid "iconic") White Tower was the work of the Venetians while the surrounding wall has long since been demolished. The minarets on the right are a reminder that there were far more mosques than Christian churches in Thes/niki at the time of the Balkan Wars or on the eve of the First World War. There was a "forgotten" front in Macedonia in Greece during that conflict. It makes a change from the cliched views of beaches...
P.S. I forgot to mention that one of Thes/niki's claims to fame is that it was the birth-place of Ataturk.
