ΟThe Gardens of the Pasha - also known as the Dragon's House or the Den of the Dervishes - are one of the greatest living mysteries of Thessaloniki.
Built around 1904, the monument remains a magical place with deep cisterns, dark gates and underground arcades, which, although it seems calm and charming during the day, becomes nightmarish with the first shadows of the night, when a path opens - the road of Mavris Petras- starting from the cemeteries of Evangelistria.
Through the absurd and the fantastic, the scientifically accepted and the historically documented, the well-known author Fani Melfou Grammatikou, unfolds a real story and brings to life the urban legends of Thessaloniki with the protagonists being the members of a wealthy family, during the interwar period.
Unknown aspects of the social and spiritual life of Thessaloniki are outlined in the pages of the novel and present the image of an emerging city, in the context of preventions, social distinctions, mystical ceremonies and well-hidden secrets.
With a central figure of a disturbed personality and with the setting of the strange Gardens, an otherworldly story unfolds, according to which an all-powerful Dragon Punisher dispenses justice, with his own laws and criteria...
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