Thessaloniki - not what we expected! (greece vlog)
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- čas přidán 8. 06. 2024
- Thessaloniki is full of history, charm and greek food! Come, spend one day with us in Thessaloniki!
We'll show you all the fun and historic places you can squeeze in 1 day in Thessaloniki. From the White Tower, Arch of Galerius, and some less obvious places as well.
We visited:
00:00 Intro
00:16 Aristotelous Square
01:00 White Tower
03:02 Ladadika District
03:27 Derlicatesen All Souvlaki
04:25 Arch of Galerius
05:18 Rotunda
06:40 Hagaia Sophia
07:46 The Roman Forum
09:03 Church of St. Demetrois
10:39 Kapani Market
11:34 "The Last Slice" Pizza
12:19 Outro
We hope you'll enjoy our little trips, and we're always interested in new places we could visit, so be sure to share your suggestions!
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8:55 you have no idea. The reason the city doesn't have a metro station is because they find ruins everywhere they dig and for so many years there have been discussions about whether they should move these ruins to museums or not. The plan for the metro station started in 1989 and it's still not done to this day. Some stations are finished though. It's said to be completely done and running by the end of 2023.
Hi guys I'm born in Australia and from a Cypriot background but I've been to Thessaloniki numerous times.Thessaloniki is home to me more than anywhere else in the world and made great friends there.soon as we can travel again I might even be thinking of moving there for good.🇬🇷
It's a wonderful place to live in, we definitely enjoyed our stay!
Very nice video. One correction. Hagia Sophia wasn't a mosque that became an Orthodox church. It was build as an Orthodox church and then was transformed into a mosque and after the liberation of the city it became again a church. Most of the mosques (if not all) that were in Thessaloniki were Byzantine churches before. The actual buildings of the ottomans were some baths and towers for the city defence. Thank you
Thank you for sharing this, now it makes a lot more sense!
@@PlanetPursuit My pleasure❤
I am in Thessaloniki and I love it! Επιστρέφω τον επόμενο χρόνο !
Wherever you dig in Greece you will find ancient findings and it's one of the main reasons why many projects are delayed. These are everywhere, literally.
One of the best city in the Mediterranean Sea in Combination nearbly at Chalkidiki or Halkidiki ,Unsurpassed Town!!!!! (And with the U- subway from 2023 -2024)
Oh yeah, it's a wonderful city! Especially coming for a day trip from Chalkidiki. Great food, beautiful history, and generally a very fun vibe! 🇬🇷🌅
Unfortunately you have missed several beautiful neighborhoods that are worth visiting! In Thessaloniki there is a important theater, book fair, film festival, Etc.. Things that covid has lifted or slowed down.. It takes at least 1 year to live there to see all the seasons and nuances of this beloved city. And believe me, the city that young people will surely find themselves well!!!
Next time! It's definitely a beautiful city, and we'll check out more of it next time we're in Greece!
I am from Thessaloníki. During summer,you see many scammers. They approach tourists mostly. They know we locals won't fall for their shit. You must be cautious, and please avoid big crowds. There are no pickpockets but please be cautious. Exchange places are fair,so you won't have any problem if you need to exchange money,but don't forget that Thessaloniki is a wonderful city
If there are so many, what do the police do to stop them?
@@sitrepSNAFU Because you can't possibly know when they will get out or where
Can I ask you how Thessaloniki is in the end of September is there still good nightlife?
@@mvrchamakh5117 Greeks are fun people
@@mvrchamakh5117 nightlife is good anytime of the year
An interesting place to visit. Nice video guys.
Thank you for visiting Thessaloniki.. You can visit Larissa the city of coffee and ancient history too😃😃
Sounds great! Definitely will try to visit it next time!
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Wow your name is Dimitri and you’re Jewish! That means Thessaloniki is your home! Saint Demetrius whom you’re named after lived and martyred in this city in the place of the church you visited and Thessaloniki used to be the largest Jewish city after Jerusalem(population-wise) until WWII. It had a very large population of Sephardi Jews. There’s a museum you can visit about it and you can learn more about the history of the city inside the White Tower. I hope you guys had a great time! Thank you very much for appreciating good old Thessalonica! I hope you’ll come visit again soon!❤️
Oh wow, that's super interesting! It's a shame we didn't know this when we visited the city, but I'll make a note of it for next time, and will definitely visit the museum! Thank you!
Funny thing , during the metro excuvations, they found 300.000 ancient items and a buried city as a whole with baths, aisles and columns, mosaics etc. Byzantine,Roman and Hellinistic history
I enjoyed your video
Glad you had fun in beautiful Thessaloniki
Oh yeah, we definitely did! Cannot wait to go back there. 🇬🇷
@@PlanetPursuit i would also suggest a stop at Elenidis store downtown in Navarinou square to taste the famous sweet Trigono (triangle in English) 😁
Thank you for this suggestion! It's a shame we missed it, but will definitely visit it next time!
Happy to have you here in our charming city. Come back any time :)
Also, yeah we are bored of the ruins we find. The construction of Thessaloniki's metro system has actually been delayed for several years due to the huge amount of ancient ruin findings. It is also very common for us to find ancient ruins of smaller scale whenever we start the construction of residential buildings, which is an issue .
Thank you! Will do! It's a lovely city and so much to explore and learn!
Yes! We knew it! But it Is a good issue to have, as the ruins are also bringing you tourism and a lot of people who are interested in those ruins - a bit like finding oil.
I was born here and lived for a couple of years in the 80's. Thessaloniki is a better city than Athens in my opinion.
St. Demetrios is a Roman design cathedral and not Byzantine. Byzantine churches like St Catherine's in Ano Poli have a more rotund or circular design were St Demetrios is more rectangular and long. Hopefully you can upload more of the city. Great video!!
Yeah, we definitely liked Thessaloniki a lot more than Athens! Thanks for sharing about St. Demetrios - I guess we were confused coming from Chalkidiki, where there are a lot of Byzantine places. We won't upload more of Thessaloniki anytime soon, but we will upload Chalkidiki and Pelion soon, so please subscribe and stay tuned! Thank you!
Byzantine is actually Roman. It just refers to different periods of Roman history. The term ‘Byzantine’ is a historiographic which first appeared 100 years after the fall of Constantinople and the end of the Byzantine empire. The Byzantines called themselves Romans and their empire was the direct continuation of the Roman Empire. They just spoke Greek, they were Christians and they had a Greek culture.
@@angrybirdo I was referring to the architecture or design of the church, not the nationality of the church. I even stated it in my response..
I lived in Greece for a period of my life and at school there was a clear delineation of what period each church was built in and what its architecture is.
I lived opposite Agia Ekaterini (St Catherine's) which is 12-13th century Byzantine rythmos (design). I remember having to do an exam in year 8 identifying church designs in medieval history class.
@@blackpanther50 The church of Hagios Demetrius is a Byzantine church (if we have to use this term). The structure we see today is a Basilica created in 629-634 AD. The beginning of "Byzantine empire" is in the 4th century AD so it's not even a conversation about what it is. The architectural type of the church is a typical Basilica as it was established in the late Roman architectural/early Byzantine (palaiochristian) and it can be found throughout the Roman Empire. So the type isn't what makes it "more roman", there's no such a thing. Is a Byzantine church because it was built by the Eastern Roman Empire/Byzantium.
Beautiful video 🇬🇷❤️
Thank you! 😃
My love to Serbia! I hope you had a nice time in my city!
Thank you! Yeah, we loved Thessaloniki!
Your name is actually Greek, Ancient Greek name(Dimitra/Δήμητρα in Ancient Demeter/Δημήτηρ for female and Δημήτριος/Dimitrios or Dimitris for the males). Dimitra/Demeter was the ancient Greek goddess of the harvest and agriculture.
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Nice video 🙂👍
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Thanks for watching :-)
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hello dear travellers,
thessaloniki is the second largest city in greece so it's always noisy.Summer here is always to hot over 35 celsius.Next time you should enter in white tower.
Hey, it was surprisingly not loud, and very pleasent. Thanks, next time we'll definitely go into the white tower!
Hagia Sophia was built during the 7th century as a Christian church and then converted to a mosque by the Ottomans in 1430. You say that it was a mosque during the Ottoman empire and you don't mention that it was built as Christian church and in fact was a church for 600 years. Very inaccurate your video.
Well to be honest these people didn’t post a video to historically educate people …they’re not historians…they’re tourists . Great job with the video overall
@@jjgreek1 If you want to talk about the history of a building, the least you can do is to read a simple Wikipedia article about it. If you are too lazy to do that, better avoid talking about history.Spreading disinformation and inaccuracies is bad.
@@johnsinger1887 their statement wasn’t in accurate. It was a mosque in the Ottoman times.
@@jjgreek1 This man says '' this is Hagia Sophia ,which during the Ottoman Empire was a mosque, but today is a church'' which gives the false impression that Hagia Sophia was originally a mosque and then turned in to a Christian church. Totally wrong and misleading description of the history of Hagia, zero knowledge of basic things about the church.Hagia Sophia wasn't built during the Ottoman Empire and this man ignores 7 centuries history.
@@jjgreek1 They could avoid talking about things they don't know. This video has many inaccuracies.
the romans was in greece after they beat the macedon in 166bc because they allied themselves with karthage.
greeks became roman soon after and continued to be romans for the next 1600 years until the fall of constantinople in 1453 when the last roman emperor constantinos palailogos died fighting.
he had a serbian mother btw with name helena dragassi and she was the daughter of the serbian king konstantin dejanovic.
even today greek refer to themselves as romans (rhomaios) , especially in christian and church matters.
Nice video. By the way you didn't get to show Ladadika area. It's full of cafes, tavernas, pubs etc , you should visit it at a night out. Also St Dimetreus remains are in his church (i think- correct me if i am wrong). Last but not least you should visit the upper city (Ano Poli) with the roman walls and citadel.
Thanks for your comment, but actually Ladadika is the 2nd location in our video. We didn't show all of what Ladadika can offer, but it's because you can easily spend a whole day in Ladadika, and we had only 15 minutes for everything in this video :-) About St Dimetreus - that's super interesting, we didn't see that mentioned anywhere. We did go to Ano Poli, but our time there was very limited, and it was very hot to explore, so we cut this from this video, and maybe we'll show it in a future video.
Saint Dimitrios church is built above the place he had been executed and his remains are over there too.
Planet clueless would be a more fitting name for the channel....geeeez
I like that, maybe we will rename 😂
Not white house dude😂😂😂 we are not in u.s.a 😊😊 its the white tower especially the white tower of thessaloniki :)
Maybe 10 years or so there would have never been beggars in tge numbers in Greece and the islands
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I'm moving to Thesaloniki next week and this video is upseting me.
Why does it upset you?
we bored of the rulers in greece , like goverment and stuff.. ancient things are cute :)
hello from greece :D
Hai
Constantinople no Istanbul
Constantinople is called Istanbul today. It's the same city, just the name was changed.
@@PlanetPursuit yes we know this...but to us greeks it feels like calling a black person a niher
Ah, I'm sorry, we didn't know this! We'll be more aware in the future!
@@PlanetPursuit it's no problem just saying I know you are not Greek...but imagine having a son..someone kidnaps the son and changes the name...to you the son will always have the real name
never call that food souvlaki in thessaloniki, thats what they call it in the south, and salonikians hate the south. On northern greece its gyros
Such a biased video, fixated on the negative aspects so much that it ignores the positive ones (which city doesn't have both) and made some glaring, easily searchable mistakes, bordering misinformation. Oh well, haters gonna hate.
We weren't trying to "review" Thessaloniki, but rather share our experience and the things we liked/disliked based on our experience. Where we come from, there aren't such scammers in the streets, so it was surprising to see. The city is nice, but to be honest, as much as I love Greek islands, I don't like Greek cities. Neither Athens nor Thessaloniki.
This video has many inaccuracies.
How can a video of 2 people just exploring a city have inaccuracies? :-)
@@PlanetPursuitThere are inaccuracies in what you're saying during your exploring, but it's obvious it wasn't on purpose, so never mind, I'm glad you had a nice time.
White tower - Byzantine fort (nothing ottoman ), ottomans build nothing (illiterate people ) and bring only catastrophe and burn cities it's how Greeks called the barbarians.
In other part , you should visit Kastra the acropolis of the old city, if you have car , visit the Pella and the Petralona cave.
Thank you for your comment! But it was in fact a Byzantine tower rebuilt by the ottoman empire to fortify the cities port. That was mentioned in a few sources. Unfortunately the cave is currently closed due to COVID, we wanted to visit it.
@@PlanetPursuit The rebuild was on the top of tower with wood floor for the cannons. Plus the flagpole with Hellenic flag on top of the tower is from sunk Feth-i Bülend, in the battle 1912 of 18th October . The correct information could found on in the Archeological Museum of Thessaloniki , so the Ottoman part rebuild is only 1% true.
Shame on you! Who is illiterate? Why do Greeks always look through the same window of bigotry regarding historical events? So all the world was bad and ignorant but wooow you Greek people were the chosen ones right? I just can not comprehend how eagerly you people argue over historical events wars etc. Don't you have anything sensible to do? Get a life and look ahead.
@@airmag the simple difference is ,we have history and you have only criminal records. Even your flag is stolen from Byzantine empire coin. It's hard to believe but this is the truth . Unfortunately once the people is controlled by (any) religion there always restriction in the knowledge. The first catastrophe for knowledge was the Christianity startup years the second was the Islam and for the end was the " holy " war etc .For this reason the humanity was going backward for 1800+ years. Now there still some fanatics that in 2023 believe in some books that is written(copy pasted) by fanatics centuries ago and this books it's not even the original ones. You choose what you want to believe I choose to make my own research and have a very good opinion. And for the record when I visited the old cities of Pella , Amphipolis , Argos etc , I could read old inscriptions and I could understand them for me it is very special that after thousand of years I had that special simple connection with my ancestors.
@@demisd8573 criminal records? how about peloponnesse (morea) massacres in 1821? Biggest genocide against Turks and Jews by the peace loving, civilized, intellectual descendants of Alexander the great? You cry baby greeks have nothing but lies and more lies. Stop blaming Ottomans for suppressing your murderous revolts, instead blame your puppet patriarchs exhorting the innocent inhabitants to uprise and murder their neighbors "for the sake of the cross"
You mean Solun.
What is Solun?
@@PlanetPursuit That’s how in Republic of Macedonia we call Thessaloniki,other Slavs call it so too,Greeks just renamed it.
@@tunf5414 only in slavic languages it is called like that, including your native bulgarian language that you speak. Internationally it is called Thessaloniki and before that Selanik, your republic is North Macedonia but in greek we call it Monkeydonia
Well, the romans actually conquered Greece in the 2nd century BC. And Thessaloniki even had a jewish community around 1st century BD. I hope they're gone by now ... You might want to learn a little bit more history :) ...I'm just joking.