Thessaloniki hotels ,night life ,tavernas,night club,university, Exhibition center,Hotels in Thessaloniki ,map of thessaloniki, thessaloniki maps, salonika pictures, foto, photo, images, photographies, map, maps,picture,Thessaloniki,ACCOMMODATION hotel,hotels, Hotels in Thessaloniki hotels,Egnatia Palace  hOTEL,Exhibition OF THESSALONIKI  Exhibition center,AGEON HOTEL,HOLIDAY INN HOTEL,EGNATIA PALACE HOTEL,AVALON HOTELThessaloniki is the capital of the region of Central Macedonia, which is considered as the European Union' s gate to the Balkan countries.

It is the metropolitan centre of Northern Greece, second city of the country, the Cultural Capital of Europe for 1997 and a basic national and international transport interchange in the cross-roads of the North - South and East - West axes.

The population of the city of Thessaloniki with the suburbs is some 970,000 with about 450,000 of them living in the center of the city. The city is surrounded by the Thermaikos gulf from one side and the mountains from other side which gave the city a longitudinal shape with traffic volume coming from the East and West sides of the city. It is also for this reason, the traffic network system is built to serve East West traffic volumes with traffic management focusing on one-way control of main arterials of the city