In which quarter house in Thessaloniki?

Are you going to visit Thessaloniki in Greece? Discover with us in which area to stay in Thessaloniki!

Also called Salonique, Thessaloniki is the second largest city in Greece , and is located in Greek Macedonia, northeast of the country. Founded by Macedonian Cassandra in -315 and renamed for his wife Thessaloniké, the city was successively occupied by the Greeks, the Romans, the Saracens, the Crusaders, the Ottomans before returning to the gallows of modern Greece. Its current population (2011) is estimated at 322,240, but its urban area includes more than one million people.

Thessaloniki is the second economic, industrial, financial, political and commercial lung of Greece. The city, the cultural capital of the country, is also known for its cultural life, the population being young, student, festive and dynamic. Are you going to visit Thessaloniki? Here is our presentation of the neighborhoods where to sleep in Thessaloniki!

Ladadika

Located near the port and the seafront, the Ladadika neighborhood is the area where to sleep in Thessaloniki if you like to party until dawn in the middle of a young, thirsty and noctambule population.

A celebrity holiday place, it logically concentrates a plethora of bars, restaurants, terraces and discotheques. Here, people come out until very late in the night – or very early – with DJ’s mixing in the open air and other pubs defusing traditional and current music waves. Not far, go through the Place Aristote and Agora Romaine Thessaloniki.

Egnatia – University

The neighbourhood adjacent to Ladadika is where you can find it Aristotle University Thessaloniki: nearly 100,000 students, bars to celebrate, monuments and museums – Thessaloniki archaeological museum, war museum, the White Tower – and two very dynamic and commercial arteries – Tsimski and Egnatia – make this district a perfect place to stay in Thessaloniki.

Don't miss the Arc de Galère built between 299 and 305, the Ataturk Museum, the church of Sainte-Sophie – one of the oldest churches in the city – dating from the 8th century.

To enjoy the city and the treasures it contains, why not opt for a guided tour of Thessaloniki accompanied by a local? When the most greedy ones know that there are some city culinary tour during which you discover the markets of the city and taste local specialties!

Ano Poli

The area behind the active town centre of Ladadika is located Ano Poli , literally "the high city". The neighbourhood is one of the parts of the city that survived the fire of 1917, so it will be felt as if the evolution here had not had any influence over time.

Here we find a traditional Balkan architecture, with spectacular views of the modern city and the sea. The main medieval fortress of the city is located there, serving as a defence point in the Byzantine and Ottoman eras. Multiple small traditional restaurants match the steep streets, an ideal setting to taste the specialties of Asia Minor, Macedonia and the Balkans.

It is a neighborhood where you can stay in Thessaloniki if you have good calves and/or if you are looking for a more picturesque area than in the new city.