Floral Clock - Aristotelous Street, Thessaloniki, Greece
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Floral Clock located on Aristotelous Street near central, Aristotelous square in Thessaloniki
Waymark Code: WMCR4P
Location: Greece
Date Posted: 10/05/2011
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After big fire in 1917 most of the city centre in Thessaloniki was burned down. Then prime minister of Greece, Eleftherios Venizelos, ordered that a new city plan would be designed and implemented. he head of the team of architects that collaborated to deliver the new plan in 1918 was the French architect Ernest Hebrard. The new city plan provided a new street grid with parallel boulevards, large public spaces and an aesthetic connection with the city's Byzantine heritage.(According to (
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The centrepiece of Hebrard's design was Aristotelous Square (then called "Alexander the Great's Square"). As it is written in city guide "If you decide to take a walk uphill from Aristotelous square through Aristotelous Street you will meet i.a. - The flower clock. Everybody takes pictures in front of this clock. Don't really know why." The clocks are said to be controlled from sattelite :-)