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Οδοιπορικό Θεσσαλονίκης, Walking in the City Otherwise

Author: Sakis Serefas

Which temple in the city operated as a mental asylum? Which side of the White Tower's ramparts do suicides prefer? What phrases have workers carved into the domes of the Bezesten for three centuries?...

Which temple in the city operated as a mental asylum? Which side of the White Tower's ramparts do suicides prefer? What phrases have workers carved into the domes of the Bezesten for three centuries? In which church courtyard did deadly battles take place?

Why are the fingers missing from the statues on Frank Street? At what point on the old beach were...

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Which temple in the city operated as a mental asylum? Which side of the White Tower's ramparts do suicides prefer? What phrases have workers carved into the domes of the Bezesten for three centuries? In which church courtyard did deadly battles take place?

Why are the fingers missing from the statues on Frank Street? At what point on the old beach were gallows erected? In front of which hotel did the tobacco worker get killed by the gendarmes? Inside which church did the mice eat the people?

In which pastry shop was a scene from Christina with Iliopoulos filmed? What is the "usual execution site"? In which hotel did the German spy stay? What is the history of fried potatoes in the city?

Which temple's propylon is built with materials from the houses that burned in 1917? On which street in the city did people venerate the saints painted on the windows of houses? Who was stabbed with the knife found thrown in the sea, in front of "Olympus-Naousa"?

Under which plane tree in the city center were stake burnings held? What murder happened in Diagonal? At what point in the depths off the White Tower is a piano submerged? Who wanted to exterminate the acacias on Venizelou?

In which cinema did a desperate person commit suicide? Are there flying discs at the beach? What is the most infamous camp in the city?

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Last century, in the old days of the 1970s, what historians call the "seventies," the passage of a young man from adolescence to the teenage stage of earthly life was marked by three initiation stages: 1/ his tendency towards self-harm 2/ watching a movie without parental supervision 3/ crossing P.P. Germanou without the teacher's modesty, that is, shamelessly. In chronicles and monodies preserved at the Gennadius Library, unmistakable place names such as Elysees, Figaro, Tomb, Krypton are mentioned, alongside gerunds that reveal significant actions and attitudes of existence: playing billiards, playing rock, playing disco, courting. In other words: becoming human.

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Author
Sakis Serefas
Publisher
Metaichmio
Skroutz Book Awards 2025
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Type
Testimonial
Language
Greek
Subtitle
Walking in the City Otherwise
Cover
Soft
Number of Pages
228
Release Date
5/2021
Publication Date
2021
Dimensions
13x20 cm
ISBN-13
9786180323733

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Which temple in the city operated as a mental asylum? Which side of the White Tower's ramparts do suicides prefer? What phrases have workers carved into the domes of the Bezesten for three centuries? In which church courtyard did deadly battles take place?

Why are the fingers missing from the statues on Frank Street? At what point on the old beach were gallows erected? In front of which hotel did the tobacco worker get killed by the gendarmes? Inside which church did the mice eat the people?

In which pastry shop was a scene from Christina with Iliopoulos filmed? What is the "usual execution site"? In which hotel did the German spy stay? What is the history of fried potatoes in the city?

Which temple's propylon is built with materials from the houses that burned in 1917? On which street in the city did people venerate the saints painted on the windows of houses? Who was stabbed with the knife found thrown in the sea, in front of "Olympus-Naousa"?

Under which plane tree in the city center were stake burnings held? What murder happened in Diagonal? At what point in the depths off the White Tower is a piano submerged? Who wanted to exterminate the acacias on Venizelou?

In which cinema did a desperate person commit suicide? Are there flying discs at the beach? What is the most infamous camp in the city?

Read an excerpt

Last century, in the old days of the 1970s, what historians call the "seventies," the passage of a young man from adolescence to the teenage stage of earthly life was marked by three initiation stages: 1/ his tendency towards self-harm 2/ watching a movie without parental supervision 3/ crossing P.P. Germanou without the teacher's modesty, that is, shamelessly. In chronicles and monodies preserved at the Gennadius Library, unmistakable place names such as Elysees, Figaro, Tomb, Krypton are mentioned, alongside gerunds that reveal significant actions and attitudes of existence: playing billiards, playing rock, playing disco, courting. In other words: becoming human.

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Author
Sakis Serefas
Publisher
Metaichmio
Skroutz Book Awards 2025
-
Type
Testimonial
Language
Greek
Subtitle
Walking in the City Otherwise
Cover
Soft
Number of Pages
228
Release Date
5/2021
Publication Date
2021
Dimensions
13x20 cm
ISBN-13
9786180323733

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    unique but excellent!

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