The Associated Press A party tent is raised on the sea-facing terrace of the 5th-century church of Osios David on June 25 in Thessaloniki, Greece. Later that day, a festival would be celebrated there ...

THESSALONIKI — This may be Greece’s northern second city, but it is south of Rome. It is a relaxed and surprisingly gracious kind of place, though scruffier than, say, Trieste, and wears a mottled ...

For half a millennium until the Holocaust, the cosmopolitan city of Thessaloniki, Greece, had a unique claim to fame: It was Europe’s only major city with a Jewish majority. But the golden age of ...

There is no subway system in Thessaloniki, Greece, so the buses run late into the night and start up again early in the morning. Hotel El Greco is located along Via Egnatia — the main street in Greece ...

Fronting the Mediterranean Sea in this bustling Greek port stands a haunting monument to the city’s roughly 50,000 Jews who were rounded up by the Nazis in 1943 and deported to Auschwitz. Each year on ...

The 27th Thessaloniki International Documentary Film Festival is set to bring over 260 documentaries to the big screen, with dozens of world premieres and an AI-themed tribute. The 27th Thessaloniki ...

Greece’s second city is often overlooked - because Athens draws the big, camera-clicking crowds. Yet it’s full of interest, including wonderful ancient remains, markets, fine churches, a rich history ...

THEY say Scotland is God’s own country but when it comes to a city of biblical proportions Thessaloniki is hard to beat. Greece’s second biggest city is rich in religious and ancient history, has ...

Thessaloniki (Greece) (AFP) – Greece's second city Thessaloniki will unveil its new subway system more than a decade late on Saturday after the project was dogged by archaeological challenges and ...

A party tent is raised on the sea-facing terrace of the 5th-century church of Osios David on June 25 in Thessaloniki, Greece. Later that day, a festival would be celebrated there despite the summer ...