Thessaloniki: A Market for Every Taste

Thessaloniki is an extraordinary city with its waterfront, museums, churches and archaeological sites. It is also a big nightlife hub with clubs and discos. Its markets are also very famous. Any examples?

Kapani 
Probably the city's oldest market and still one of the most popular. It looks like a bazaar, and it is wonderful to watch customers and sellers haggling over prices. Its origins date back to the Ottoman occupation, its name deriving from the Turkish 'un-kapan', meaning 'flour market'. It is also popular with students and travellers. 

Athonos Square Market
You can find everything in this market in one of the city's most central squares, and it is very popular, especially for its spice stalls and shops selling all sorts of containers or wicker baskets. It is busy from dawn until late at night, because besides the market, there are many taverns, inns and restaurants. 

Modiano
A masterpiece named after its architect, it recently celebrated its 100th birthday. It is the city's largest covered market, and as well as the delicacies on offer, the shopkeepers' signs, which add unexpected colour to the route, are a joy to behold. 

Louloudadika
Here you will not find food but a flower market. Just follow the scent if you can't find it on the map. Indeed, from the end of the 19th century, Thessaloniki's flower shops began to move to the intersection of Komninon, King Heraklion and Fagkini streets. From then on, that area became the flower district.