Ano Poli (Upper Town)

A look around

What you’ll be living next to. Swipe through.

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Where it sits

The circle is Ano Poli and roughly a 10-minute walk around it.

How far is everything?

From the middle of this area to the city's headline sights — pick your own on the city page and these become your list.

• Church of Agios Dimitrios8 min walk693 m
• The Roman Forum11 min walk942 m
• The Rotunda of Galerius12 min walk1.0 km
• The Arch of Galerius (Kamara)13 min walk1.1 km
• Modiano & Kapani markets15 min walk1.2 km
• Aristotelous Square18 min walk1.5 km
• The Ladadika quarter20 min walk1.6 km
• The White Tower22 min walk1.8 km

On your doorstep

What you’re living next to if you stay here.

• 4.Ano Poli & the Byzantine walls — The old upper town, the only quarter to survive the 1917 fire — a climb through cobbled lanes and Ottoman houses to the Byzantine ramparts and the whole city spread out below. The most atmospheric wander in Thessaloniki, best near sunset.
• 15.The Heptapyrgion fortress — The Byzantine-and-Ottoman citadel crowning the upper town, a prison until 1989 and now open for the walls, the history and the view — the whole city, the gulf and Olympus laid out below. The reward for the climb through Ano Poli.
• 18.Ano Poli & the walls — Climb through the old Ottoman upper town of wooden houses and tiny churches to the Byzantine walls, for the finest view over the city and the Thermaic Gulf. Best at sunset.