The course of the Institution in Thessaloniki
from the 4th century to the present day
The historical course of Thessaloniki is intertwined with the personality of Saint Demetrius. Over the years, the respect for the face of the saint evolved into a cult, which turned into the city's biggest commercial, religious and cultural event to date. For more than a thousand years, Dimitria has been the cultural heritage, the spiritual flourishing and the religious preservation of ideas and principles that transcended the borders both in the years of the Byzantine Empire and more recently, giving Thessaloniki the character of a multicultural metropolis.
From the Dionysian cult, to Kaveri and the ceremonies in his honor and then in the Christian years to Agios Demetrios and Demetria, Thessaloniki is the most important center of the Balkan Peninsula and the Eastern Mediterranean.
Church ceremonies with a religious content, spiritual and sports events, but also the trade fair of the Byzantine times, found fertile ground in recent years as well. Today the commercial character has passed to Hellexpo - TEF, while art and forms of expression and creation in the Municipality of Thessaloniki, continuing the tradition of coexistence of cultures and peoples, ideas, trends, innovations and actions, with a focus on the culture and culture of Thessaloniki .
The unique book-research that unfolds the unknown cultural path of a historical institution of Thessaloniki, from antiquity to the present day.
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