Malakopi Stoa has renaissance elements, a curved pediment and its façades openings of Palladian style.
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At the centre of the former Frangomachalas and present Chrimatistiriou Square, we see the Malakopi Stoa. This building survived the devastating fire of 1917. Its architectural characteristics are its renaissance elements, a curved pediment and its façades openings of Palladian style. It is a two-storey building with a rectangular ground plan and internally is lit by its exalting metal roof.
It used to be the building of the Bank of Thessaloniki, with the Italian-Jewish business family, Allatini (1888) as the main stockholder. Today, it belongs to a private individual, who gave it the name of Malakopi. On June 20, 1978, at 11.07 pm, Thessaloniki was devastated by a 6.5R catastrophic earthquake, which caused the death of 49 people, the injury of 220 and left thousands homeless. From that moment on you can say time froze in the Malakopi Stoa. The earthquake destroyed the clock’s mechanism, and till this day, the halted clock hands remind us of that ill-fated moment.
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http://www.parallaximag.gr/thessaloniki/o-hartis-tis-polis-stoa-malakopi
Τελευταία επίσκεψη 31/7/2015
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http://www.parallaximag.gr/thessaloniki/o-hartis-tis-polis-stoa-malakopi
Last visit31/7/2015
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http://www.oasp.gr/node/353
Last visit:31/7/2015
Collective Work, (1985-6), Νεώτερα Μνημεία της Θεσσαλονίκης [Modern Monuments of Thessaloniki], Ministry of Culture, Ministry of Northern Greece
1940 It was requisitioned by the Nazis and the bank closed.
1906 Building’s construction, designed by Vitaliano Poselli. The following year it was bought by the Bank of Thessaloniki. In the bibliography, 1908 is as well mentioned as the year of construction.
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