The Umbrellas
Zongolopoulos' steel over the water.
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Distance answers: tower, Umbrellas and two gardens walk in an hour — the full five to the concert hall ride better (thirty pedalling minutes out). Families: prams and children own the place anyway — the lane is theirs.
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Nea Paralia is Thessaloniki's living room: five kilometres of seafront redesigned (2013) into a European-prize urban masterpiece — from the White Tower to the concert hall, a sequence of themed gardens (of shade, of roses, of water, of memory...) each a green room on the sea. Its icon is the Umbrellas — Zongolopoulos' steel sculpture flying over the water, the modern city's first image — and its rite the sacred evening walk: half the city here each sunset on foot, run, bike and pram, Olympus reddening across the gulf. Practically: rent a bicycle, the lane is fully dedicated, pavement cafés run its length — and it is the White Tower's natural pair: the afternoon museum then the sunset promenade in one line.
Zongolopoulos' steel over the water.
Successive green rooms on the sea.
Half the city, Olympus reddening.
New waterfront, 54646 Thessaloniki