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OTE Tower
OTE Tower is a 76 metre tall antenna tower at Thessaloniki, Greece. OTE Tower is located inside the Thessaloniki International Trade Fair area in central Thessaloniki. The Fair is one of the biggest regular events of its kind in Europe. The tower opened in 1966 and was totally renovated in 2005, transforming it into a modern tower.

Bey Hamam
Bey Hamam, alternatively known as the Baths of Paradise, is a Turkish bathhouse located along Egnatia Street in Thessaloniki, west of Panagia Chalkéôn. Built in 1444 by sultan Murad II, it was the first Ottoman bath in Thessaloniki

Hagia Sophia
The Hagia Sophia in Thessaloniki, Greece, is one of the oldest churches in that city still standing today.

Technology Museum
Thessaloniki Science Center and Technology Museum (NOESIS) is located at the outskirts of Thessaloniki, Greece.

Therasia
Therasia, also known as Thirasía, is a small Greek island west of Santorini in the Cyclades. The population was 268 inhabitants at the 2001 census. It has a land area of 9.299 km². The island is part of the community of Oia.Santorini and Therasia were separated by the Thera eruption.

Nykteri (wine)
Assyrtiko or Asyrtiko is a white Greek wine grape indigenous to the island of Santorini. Assyrtiko is widely planted in the arid volcanic-ash-rich soil of Santorini and other Aegean islands, such as Paros. It is also found on other scattered regions of Greece such as Chalkidiki

Akrotiri
Akrotiri is the name of an excavation site of a Minoan Bronze Age settlement on the Greek island of Santorini, associated with the Minoan civilization due to inscriptions in Linear A, and close similarities in artifact and fresco styles[1]. The excavation is named for a modern Greek village situated on a hill nearby. The name of the site in antiquity is unknown. It was buried by a volcanic eruption in the middle of the second millennium BC[2] (during the Late Minoan IA period). As a result, it i

Ancient Thera
Ancient Thera is Santorini´s classical antiquity city. It is located at a height of 370m on the Mesa vouno mountain that dominates the village of Kamari. Its strategic location offers stunning unrestricted views to the Aegean Sea in almost all directions. Ancient Thera was built during the 9th century BC by Dorian colonists from Sparta lead by Theras who lent his name to Thera, the formal appellation of Santorini

Santorini (Thira) National Airport
Santorini (Thira) National Airport is an airport in Santorini/Thira, Greece (IATA: JTR, ICAO: LGSR), located north of the village of Kamari. The airport serves both as a military and as a civil airport. With its relatively small apron, the airport is only able to serve up to 6 civilian planes at the same time

Nea Kameni
Nea Kameni is a small uninhabited Greek island of volcanic origin located within the flooded caldera of Santorini. Nea Kameni and the neighbouring small island Palea Kameni (the new and old ´burnt islands´) have formed over the past two millennia by repeated eruptions of dacite lava and ash

National Gallery Athens
The National Art Gallery and Alexander Soutzos Museum is an art museum in Athens devoted to Greek and European art from the 14th century to the 20th century. It is directed by Marina Lambraki-Plaka.

White Tower
The White Tower of Thessaloniki is a monument and museum on the waterfront of the city of Thessaloniki, capital of the region of Macedonia in northern Greece. Originally constructed by the Ottomans to fortify the city´s harbour, it became a notorious prison and scene of mass executions during the period of Ottoman rule. It was substantially remodeled and its exterior was whitewashed after Greece gained control of the city in 1912. It has been adopted as the symbol of the city.

Arch and Tomb of Galerius
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 Rotunda, the Church of Agios Georgios or (in English) the Rotunda of St. George.

Port of Thessaloniki
The Port of Thessaloniki is one of the largest Greek seaports and one of the largest ports in the Aegean Sea basin, with a total annual traffic capacity of 16 million tonnes (7 million tonnes dry bulk and 9 million tonnes liquid bulk). The Port of Thessaloniki is also the second largest Greek container port after the Port of Piraeus.

International Thessaloniki Film Festival
The International Thessaloniki Film Festival has become the one of the Balkans´ primary showcases for the work of new and emerging filmmakers. The event features the International Section, a panorama of Greek films, the New Horizons program, the Balkan Survey, and numerous retrospectives and tributes to leading figures in the world of film. The Festival is competitive with the International Section jury awarding several prizes each year, most notably the Golden Alexander for Best Feature-Lengt

Heptapyrgion
The Heptapyrgion also popularly known by its Ottoman Turkish name Yedi Kule, is a Byzantine and Ottoman-era fortress situated on the north-eastern corner of the acropolis of Thessaloniki in Greece. Despite its name, which in both languages means Fortress of Seven Towers, it features ten, and was probably named after the Yedikule Fortress in Constantinople (modern Istanbul, Turkey). It served as the major redoubt of the city´s acropolis, as well as the seat of its garrison commander in Ottoman

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