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A port city of many empires

Byzantine walls, Ottoman markets and Greece's best food scene.

Thessaloniki has been Roman, Byzantine, Ottoman and Greek, and it eats like all of them at once.

Walk the Ano Poli, the upper town the fire of 1917 spared, then come down to the market and eat everything.