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Monument · Thessaloniki, Central Macedonia

Arch of Galerius

Αψίδα Γαλερίου · Καμάρα

The Arch of Galerius, known locally as Kamara, is the surviving part of a Roman triumphal arch on Egnatia Street in central Thessaloniki, dated to 305 AD.

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The Ministry of Culture's Odysseus page says the arch, called Kamara today, was originally an eight-pier gateway with four main and four secondary piers and a low dome, of which two main piers and one secondary pier survive, joined by a brick arch. The same page dates it to 305 AD from the narrative of its relief panels, after Galerius's final victory over the Persians, and says it stood where the two axes of the Galerian complex crossed, linked with the palace to the south and the Rotunda to the north. Hellenic Heritage lists the Triumphal Arch (Kamara) among the buildings of Galerius's palace complex. This record is the arch alone, not the complex or the Rotunda, which XTOUR keeps as a separate place.

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Thessaloniki

Thessaloniki is a city in Macedonia, Greece, on the Thermaic Gulf; the Greek National Tourism Organisation describes it as inhabited since prehistoric times, with archaeological sites, Byzantine churches and Ottoman monuments, and the White Tower on its waterfront. XTOUR maps the Roman and Byzantine monuments, churches and museums in the city itself, and keeps places elsewhere in Central Macedonia, such as Pella and Aigai at Vergina, apart from it.

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