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White Tower, Heptapyrgion and Byzantine Walls to receive new modern lighting system

The enhancement of Thessaloniki’s unique Byzantine fortification complex — the Heptapyrgion, the White Tower, and the city walls — is being completed by the Ministry of Culture through the installation of a new lighting system

Coca Cola HBC cancelled the event at the Kallimarmaro after the “blockade” on the construction by the Ministry of Culture

The Group claims that all necessary permits were obtained for the works and that the architectural plans and studies that had been submitted and approved were fully complied with.

Repatriation of antiquity: Vase stolen during the German occupation returns to Greece

It is an early Corinthian Oinochoe with a stopper and written decoration dating between 620 and 600 BC