Greece

A fire that broke out in the Chamber of Handicrafts building in Thessaloniki on Friday afternoon has left eleven people hospitalized. The building, located in the center of the city at Aristotelous Square, burst into flames on Friday. Firefighters and...

Aristotelous Square is the main city square of Thessaloniki, which is Greece’s second largest city and the capital of Macedonia.

With an event called "The spark that turned into a blaze", Thessaloniki comemorated the great fire that changed the city's face one hundred years ago. The fire that almost destroyed the entire city on August 18, 1917 was reenacted in...