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White Tower of Thessaloniki

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The White Tower is a 15th-century circular tower on the Thessaloniki seafront, the former eastern end of the city's sea wall, which now houses an exhibition on the history of Thessaloniki.

Why go

The tower's own website says the White Tower was built in the fifteenth century, after the Ottoman capture of Thessaloniki in 1430, where the city's eastern wall met the sea wall, and that it was painted white and given its present name in 1883. It was handed to the Ministry of Culture in 1983 and now houses a permanent exhibition on Thessaloniki from its founding in 316/315 BC to the present, arranged floor by floor. This record is the tower; the exhibition is its current use. The Museum of Byzantine Culture's visit page lists the White Tower alongside the museum with its own ticket, and Hellenic Heritage's official ticket store sells timed-entry tickets for it. The tower's site says the limited space and interior layout of the monument, and the need to keep stable climatic conditions, limit the number of visitors inside at one time.

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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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