(see p. 16)
3 SHOPPING STREETS In the area including Proxenou Koromila and Mitropoleos roads and the adjacent streets such as Palaion Patron GermanouVogatsikou, Chrysostomou Smyrnis, Mitropolitou Iosif, Lassani, Agias Sofias, Karolou Dil (lined with remarkable buildings of the interwar period) and Tsimiski street, you will find some of the most expensive shops (selling clothes, shoes, jewellery, furniture, accessories etc) as well as a number of the most well-known shopping malls in the city. You will also find haute couture boutiques by Greek and foreign designers and several art galleries. Thessalonians visit the area for their shopping as they 24
4 MUSEUM FOR THE MACEDONIAN STRUGGLE The building is among the very few purely neo-classical ones in town; it was built in the years 1890-1893 to plans by Ernst Ziller after the 1890 fire. Until 1912 this building housed the Greek General Consulate and during the period 1923-1978 it provided the space for the state elementary schools. After that, the facility has housed collections of the Museum (see p. 74). Right next to it, you will see the metropolitan church of Agios Gregorios Palamas (1914, plans by E. Ziller and Xen. Paionidis); it is classified as a Byzantine domed octagon type with neoRomanic and neo-classical elements. Behind the church, at the corner of Vogatsikou and Mitropoleos streets, you will see the Ecclesiastical Museum of the Metropolitan Church of Thessaloniki, where a major collection of
3rd walk:
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go out for a coffee, a meal or a drink in the numerous hangouts lining the streets.
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a cafĂŠ as well as the eclecticstyle (military) building at the corner of Vas. Georgiou and Kaftanzoglou Streets, now housing the local branch of the Greek Scouts.
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