Walking at Vassilissis Olgas Avenue

Vassilissis Olgas Avenue radiates the wealth and the majestic aura of Thessaloniki in the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century. It crosses the famous district of the Towers or Exoches, which was one of the most impressive and elegant of Thessaloniki, from the White Tower to Villa Allatini.

Here, next to the beach at that time, the aristocratic families had their luxurious mansions surrounded by gardens. Many of them, like Casa Bianca, villa Mordoch, the mansions οι mansions of Mehmet and Ahmet Kapanci, the Italian Consulate, have been related to modern Greek history and remain to the present day, used differently, testimonies of another era.