Lefkos Pyrgos

Greece

About

What Piazzas is to Rome, and the leaning Tower is to Pisa, that is the White Tower to Thessaloniki. The city itself was founded around 300 B.C. by Cassandros, king of Macedonia, who named it for his wife, sister of Alexander the Great, Thessalonica. The thirty metres high White Tower is the city's most famous landmark, although it is sometimes closed, but is worth seeing up from outside too. In its eventful history, at the very first time the tower was part of the city wall, then became a turkish prison and place of executions known as the Bloody Tower. On clear days from the top, you might even see the almost 3 thusands meters high Mount Olympus, which is only eighty kilometres away.

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