# Roots Earth in Thessaloniki: audio stories about 44 places Canonical: https://rootsearth.com/cities/thessaloniki Published: 16 September 2026 Roots Earth has audio stories about 44 places in Thessaloniki, Greece, in Europe. The Thessaloniki stories are in all seven Roots Earth languages: English, German, Spanish, Italian, French, Dutch and Albanian. The app needs no account: open Thessaloniki, pick a place on the city's map of places and play. Download a city's audio, then it plays without a connection. The stories are written by local people. The 44 places are listed below in the order the app shows them, and again further down with their coordinates. The lists were taken from the Roots Earth catalogue on 15 September 2026. ## The 44 places in Thessaloniki with audio stories In the order the app shows them. 1. White Tower of Thessaloniki 2. Arch of Galerius (Kamara) 3. Rotunda of Galerius 4. Church of Saint Demetrios (Hagios Demetrios) 5. Aristotelous Square 6. Hagia Sophia of Thessaloniki 7. Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki 8. Museum of Byzantine Culture 9. Heptapyrgion Fortress (Yedi Kule) 10. Walls of Thessaloniki 11. Church of the Acheiropoietos 12. Roman Forum (Ancient Agora) 13. Church of Hosios David (Latomou Monastery) 14. Church of Panagia Chalkeon 15. Church of the Holy Apostles 16. Church of Saint Panteleimon 17. Vlatades Monastery 18. Bey Hamam (Baths of Paradise) 19. Hamza Bey Mosque (Alcazar) 20. Yeni Mosque 21. Atatürk Museum 22. Jewish Museum of Thessaloniki 23. Eleftherias Square 24. Aristotle University of Thessaloniki 25. Thessaloniki International Fair 26. OTE Tower 27. Thessaloniki Concert Hall 28. War Museum of Thessaloniki 29. MOMus Museum of Contemporary Art 30. NOESIS Science Center and Technology Museum 31. Modiano Market 32. Kapani Market (Vlali) 33. Ladadika District 34. Ano Poli (Upper Town) 35. Seih Sou Forest (Kedrinos Lofos) 36. Kalamaria 37. Panorama 38. Toumba Neighbourhood 39. Toumba Stadium 40. Kaftanzoglio National Stadium 41. Alexandreio Melathron (Nick Galis Hall) 42. Zeitenlik Allied Military Cemetery 43. Thessaloniki Railway Station 44. Port of Thessaloniki (Pier A) ## Is there an audio guide for White Tower of Thessaloniki? Yes. White Tower of Thessaloniki has its audio stories in the Roots Earth app: a short introduction and a deeper story, in English, German, Spanish, Italian, French, Dutch and Albanian. It is place 1 of the 44 Thessaloniki places in the app, at 40.6264, 22.9483. Every one of the other 43 places in the list above has the same two stories. Roots Earth is not a guided tour: you choose the place on the city's map of places and play its story yourself. ## How to use Roots Earth in Thessaloniki Open Roots Earth and choose Thessaloniki. The city has its own map of places with all 44 of them on it. Tap the place you are standing in front of, or any other, and play its short introduction or its deeper story. You decide what to listen to and in which order. You can listen in English, German, Spanish, Italian, French, Dutch and Albanian, and there is no account. Download a city's audio, then it plays without a connection. --- **In full** All 44 places in Thessaloniki, in the app's order, with their coordinates. ## All 44 places in Thessaloniki, with coordinates Every place below has a short introduction and a deeper story in the Roots Earth app, in English, German, Spanish, Italian, French, Dutch and Albanian. The names, the coordinates (latitude, longitude) and the one line descriptions are the app's own catalogue values of 15 September 2026; a place without a line here has none that this page can print. ### 1. White Tower of Thessaloniki - Coordinates: 40.6264, 22.9483 - In one line: A cylindrical Ottoman tower on the waterfront, built in the 15th century over a Byzantine fortification. Once a seaward bastion and infamous prison, it was whitewashed in 1890 and is now the recognised symbol of Thessaloniki. ### 2. Arch of Galerius (Kamara) - Coordinates: 40.63222, 22.95139 - In one line: A Roman triumphal arch raised around the year 303 to celebrate the emperor Galerius and his victory over the Sassanid Persians. Once an eight-pillared gateway across the Via Egnatia, its surviving marble piers still carry vivid battle reliefs. ### 3. Rotunda of Galerius - Coordinates: 40.63333, 22.95292 - In one line: A massive domed cylinder built around the year 306 as part of the emperor Galerius's palace complex. Later a Christian church and then an Ottoman mosque, it preserves rare early golden mosaics beneath one of antiquity's great surviving domes. ### 4. Church of Saint Demetrios (Hagios Demetrios) - Coordinates: 40.63889, 22.94778 - In one line: The great five-aisled basilica dedicated to Thessaloniki's patron saint, built over the site of his martyrdom. Famed for early Byzantine mosaics and a martyr's crypt, it is part of a UNESCO World Heritage group and the city's most beloved church. ### 5. Aristotelous Square - Coordinates: 40.63238, 22.94094 - In one line: Thessaloniki's grand civic square, designed in 1918 by the French architect Ernest Hébrard after the great fire and built mostly in the 1950s. Its curved arcaded facades frame a monumental view from the city down to the sea. ### 6. Hagia Sophia of Thessaloniki - Coordinates: 40.63278, 22.94694 - In one line: An early Byzantine domed church, built in the 7th to 8th century on an older basilica site and long the cathedral of Thessaloniki. Its dome carries a celebrated Ascension mosaic, and it forms part of a UNESCO World Heritage group. ### 7. Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki - Coordinates: 40.625, 22.95389 - In one line: Thessaloniki's principal museum of ancient Macedonia, housed in a modernist building designed by Patroklos Karantinos and opened in 1962. Its collections range from prehistory to Rome, including the famed Derveni Krater and the Derveni Papyrus. ### 8. Museum of Byzantine Culture - Coordinates: 40.6239, 22.955 - In one line: A purpose-built museum, opened in 1994 to a design by Kyriakos Krokos, devoted entirely to the Byzantine and post-Byzantine world of Macedonia. Its eleven galleries trace daily life, faith, and empire through mosaics, icons, coins, and sculpture. ### 9. Heptapyrgion Fortress (Yedi Kule) - Coordinates: 40.644, 22.962 - In one line: A fortress crowning the northeastern corner of Thessaloniki's acropolis, its name meaning "seven towers" though ten survive. Built across Byzantine and Ottoman centuries, it served as the city's main stronghold and, until 1989, a notorious prison. ### 10. Walls of Thessaloniki - Coordinates: 40.6425, 22.95444 - In one line: The great fortifications that ringed Thessaloniki, first raised under Cassander and rebuilt across late Roman and Byzantine centuries. Long stretches still climb the hillside through Ano Poli, part of a UNESCO World Heritage ensemble. ### 11. Church of the Acheiropoietos - Coordinates: 40.63472, 22.94778 - In one line: A fifth-century three-aisled basilica, among the oldest surviving churches in Thessaloniki and one of the best preserved early Christian basilicas in Greece. Its marble columns, mosaic-lined arches, and a Roman bath beneath earned it UNESCO World Heritage status. ### 12. Roman Forum (Ancient Agora) - Coordinates: 40.638, 22.946 - In one line: The political and commercial heart of Roman Thessaloniki, a two-terraced forum with colonnaded stoas, a small odeon, and an underground cryptoporticus. Buried for centuries, it was rediscovered by accident in the 1960s during planned courthouse construction. ### 13. Church of Hosios David (Latomou Monastery) - Coordinates: 40.64167, 22.95222 - In one line: A small late fifth-century church in the upper town, once the katholikon of the Latomou Monastery. Its apse holds a rare pre-Iconoclast mosaic of a youthful, beardless Christ in glory, a treasure of early Byzantine art and a UNESCO World Heritage monument. ### 14. Church of Panagia Chalkeon - Coordinates: 40.63694, 22.94361 - In one line: A brick cross-in-square church built in 1028, its warm red walls earning it the name "Red Church." Known as the Virgin of the Coppersmiths after the old metalworkers' quarter nearby, it is a UNESCO World Heritage monument. ### 15. Church of the Holy Apostles - Coordinates: 40.64284, 22.93755 - In one line: A five-domed Byzantine church completed around 1329 as a monastery dedicated to the Virgin. Its patterned brickwork and late Palaiologan mosaics rank among the finest of the era, and it forms part of the UNESCO-listed monuments of Thessaloniki. ### 16. Church of Saint Panteleimon - Coordinates: 40.63306, 22.95111 - In one line: A late Byzantine cross-in-square church of the 14th century, once a monastery and later the Ottoman İshakiye Mosque. Restored to Orthodox worship in 1912, it belongs to the UNESCO-listed monuments of Thessaloniki. ### 17. Vlatades Monastery - Coordinates: 40.6418, 22.9545 - In one line: A 14th-century Byzantine monastery high in the Upper Town, founded by disciples of Gregory Palamas and still active today. Its terraced gardens command sweeping views over the city and the Thermaic Gulf, and it belongs to the UNESCO-listed monuments of Thessaloniki. ### 18. Bey Hamam (Baths of Paradise) - Coordinates: 40.6357, 22.9453 - In one line: The oldest Ottoman bathhouse in Thessaloniki, built in 1444 under Sultan Murad the Second. A double bath for men and women, it kept the name Baths of Paradise until 1968 and now hosts cultural events and exhibitions on Egnatia Street. ### 19. Hamza Bey Mosque (Alcazar) - Coordinates: 40.6375, 22.9417 - In one line: One of the oldest Ottoman mosques in Thessaloniki, founded around the 1460s by Hafsa Hatun and named after the commander Hamza Bey. Later a cinema known as the Alcazar, it stands on Egnatia Street and is being restored as a monument. ### 20. Yeni Mosque - Coordinates: 40.61556, 22.95667 - In one line: An eclectic mosque built in 1902 by the architect Vitaliano Poselli for the city's Dönmeh community of crypto-Jewish converts to Islam. Its style blends Ottoman, neoclassical and art nouveau forms, and the building now serves as a municipal cultural and exhibition space. ### 21. Atatürk Museum - Coordinates: 40.63578, 22.95453 - In one line: The Thessaloniki birthplace of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, founder of modern Turkey, born here in 1881. The pink three-story house on Apostolou Pavlou Street, now part of the Turkish consulate, is preserved as a museum with period furnishings and a pomegranate tree planted by his father. ### 22. Jewish Museum of Thessaloniki - Coordinates: 40.63527, 22.9398 - In one line: Housed in a 1904 building by Vitaliano Poselli, this museum tells the story of Thessaloniki's Sephardic Jews, once a community so large the city was called the Jerusalem of the Balkans, and the catastrophe that almost erased them. ### 23. Eleftherias Square - Coordinates: 40.63389, 22.93806 - In one line: A waterfront square once ringed by grand hotels and banks, where the Young Turk Revolution was proclaimed in 1908. In July 1942 it became the site of a brutal Nazi assembly of the city's Jewish men, now marked by a Holocaust memorial. ### 24. Aristotle University of Thessaloniki - Coordinates: 40.63, 22.95806 - In one line: Founded in 1925 and named after the philosopher Aristotle, this is the largest university in Greece, with roughly 88,000 students. Its sprawling central campus, built over a destroyed Jewish cemetery, holds eleven faculties and dozens of schools. ### 25. Thessaloniki International Fair - Coordinates: 40.6278, 22.9554 - In one line: Greece's premier exhibition complex, founded in 1926 and held each September across seventeen pavilions in the city centre. Its grounds host the country's largest annual fair, where the Prime Minister traditionally announces national economic policy. ### 26. OTE Tower - Coordinates: 40.62612, 22.95455 - In one line: A 76-metre modernist tower built around 1970 on the Thessaloniki fairgrounds, designed by Alexandros Anastasiadis. Its slender spire carries stacked cylindrical discs and a revolving cafe, and Greek State Television's first broadcasts came from here in 1971. ### 27. Thessaloniki Concert Hall - Coordinates: 40.59833, 22.94833 - In one line: The city's principal cultural venue, opened in 2000 on Maria Callas Street by the sea. It pairs a traditional 1,400-seat hall with a striking contemporary building by Japanese architect Arata Isozaki, hosting concerts, opera, and conferences. ### 28. War Museum of Thessaloniki - Coordinates: 40.6243, 22.9596 - In one line: Opened in 2000 in a restored Poselli barracks of around 1900, this museum traces modern Greek military history in the north, from the Balkan Wars and the First World War through the resistance and liberation of the Second World War. ### 29. MOMus Museum of Contemporary Art - Coordinates: 40.6272, 22.9548 - In one line: Founded by citizens in 1979 and now part of the city's umbrella museum organisation, this contemporary art museum holds more than 2,000 works; the Russian avant-garde Costakis Collection belongs to MOMus-Museum of Modern Art. ### 30. NOESIS Science Center and Technology Museum - Coordinates: 40.5625, 22.99528 - In one line: A science and technology museum in the suburb of Thermi, rooted in a 1978 technical collection. Its sphere-shaped digital planetarium, wide-screen cosmotheatre and halls of vintage vehicles and ancient Greek inventions draw families and school groups year round. ### 31. Modiano Market - Coordinates: 40.6349, 22.9418 - In one line: A grand covered market built from 1922 to 1925 by engineer Eli Modiano and architect J. Oliphant on the site of a former synagogue, raised after the Great Fire of 1917. Long the city's belly of fishmongers and tavernas, it reopened restored as a food and dining hall. ### 32. Kapani Market (Vlali) - Coordinates: 40.6365, 22.9415 - In one line: The oldest market in Thessaloniki, recorded since 1498 and named after the Ottoman grain-weighing trade. A warren of open alleys near Aristotelous, it still sells fish, meat, vegetables, spices, olives and cheese to crowds every morning. ### 33. Ladadika District - Coordinates: 40.635, 22.937 - In one line: A district near the port whose name means olive oil, once lined with oil and spice warehouses. It survived the Great Fire of 1917, fell into decline and brothels, was listed as heritage in 1985, and now thrives as a nightlife and dining quarter. ### 34. Ano Poli (Upper Town) - Coordinates: 40.642, 22.952 - In one line: The old upper town on the hillside below the acropolis, the one quarter that survived the Great Fire of 1917. ### 35. Seih Sou Forest (Kedrinos Lofos) - Coordinates: 40.63877, 22.99207 - In one line: The wooded hill rising north of Thessaloniki, covering nearly 3,000 hectares of pine planted from the 1920s onward. Also called Kedrinos Lofos, it serves as the city's green lung for walkers and cyclists, despite a devastating 1997 wildfire. ### 36. Kalamaria - Coordinates: 40.58333, 22.95 - In one line: A seaside district southeast of central Thessaloniki, built largely by refugees from Asia Minor after 1922. Its ten quarters carry names from lost homelands, and its marina at Aretsou draws families along the water each evening. ### 37. Panorama - Coordinates: 40.58333, 23.03333 - In one line: An affluent hillside suburb perched around 340 metres up the slopes of Mount Chortiatis, overlooking Thessaloniki and the Thermaic Gulf. It gave the city its beloved trigona, the crisp cream-filled pastries that bear the neighbourhood's name. ### 38. Toumba Neighbourhood - Coordinates: 40.615, 22.971 - In one line: A dense working-class district east of central Thessaloniki, named after a prehistoric settlement mound at its heart. Built by Asia Minor refugees after 1922, it is famous today as the home of PAOK football club and its roaring stadium. ### 39. Toumba Stadium - Coordinates: 40.61389, 22.9725 - In one line: The home of PAOK FC, opened in 1959 in the dense Toumba district. Holding around 28,700 fans and famed as one of the most intimidating grounds in Greece, supporters call it the Cathedral, and rivals call it the Black Hell. ### 40. Kaftanzoglio National Stadium - Coordinates: 40.6255, 22.967 - In one line: Thessaloniki's national athletics and football stadium, opened in 1960 with money from the Kaftantzoglou Foundation. Long the home of Iraklis, it hosted Olympic matches in 2004 and a European cup final in 1973, and seats around 27,500. ### 41. Alexandreio Melathron (Nick Galis Hall) - Coordinates: 40.6269, 22.95722 - In one line: Thessaloniki's historic indoor arena, opened in 1966 as Greece's first large basketball hall. Home to Aris and once to PAOK, it was renamed in 2013 for basketball legend Nick Galis and seats around 5,100 for the game. ### 42. Zeitenlik Allied Military Cemetery - Coordinates: 40.65444, 22.93371 - In one line: The largest military cemetery in Greece, resting place of around 20,000 Allied soldiers who died on the Salonika Front of the First World War. French, Serbian, British, Italian and Russian dead lie here, dedicated in 1936. ### 43. Thessaloniki Railway Station - Coordinates: 40.64444, 22.92944 - In one line: Greece's largest and busiest rail terminal, on Monastiriou Street west of the centre. Designed by Hans Kleinschmidt in a stripped modernist style and inaugurated in 1961, it sprawls across former Ottoman railway land and now anchors the metro's western terminus. ### 44. Port of Thessaloniki (Pier A) - Coordinates: 40.636, 22.922 - In one line: The first pier of Thessaloniki's working harbour, where early-twentieth-century cargo warehouses now hold museums of photography and cinema and host the city's film festival each November, turning an industrial waterfront into a thriving cultural quarter beside the Thermaic Gulf. ## Roots Earth in short Roots Earth has audio stories about 5,665 places in 130 cities, 25 countries and 6 regions, written by local people. - No account - Download a city's audio, then it plays without a connection - Audio stories in English and German in every city, and in Spanish, Italian, French, Dutch and Albanian in 126 of the 130 cities Roots Earth for Android is available on Google Play: [https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rootsearth.app](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rootsearth.app). ## More from Roots Earth - [Europe in the Roots Earth catalogue](https://rootsearth.com/cities#europe): every city in Europe with its number of places and its languages. - [What Roots Earth is](https://rootsearth.com/app): the app in one page, how it works and what is in it. - [Questions travellers ask](https://rootsearth.com/faq): the cities, the languages, the account, listening without a connection. - [The 7 languages](https://rootsearth.com/languages): the seven languages with their codes and how many cities each one covers. - [Athens](https://rootsearth.com/cities/athens): 52 places in Greece with audio stories. - [Rhodes](https://rootsearth.com/cities/rhodes): 40 places in Greece with audio stories. - [Delphi](https://rootsearth.com/cities/delphi): 40 places in Greece with audio stories. - [Nafplio](https://rootsearth.com/cities/nafplio): 40 places in Greece with audio stories. 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