Egnatia Street () is the main commercial street in downtown

Thessaloniki Thessaloniki (; ), also known as Thessalonica (), Saloniki, Salonika, or Salonica (), is the second-largest city in Greece (with slightly over one million inhabitants in its Thessaloniki metropolitan area, metropolitan area) and the capital cit ...

. The road is named for the Roman-era

Via Egnatia The Via Egnatia was a road constructed by the Romans in the 2nd century BC. It crossed Illyricum, Macedonia, and Thracia, running through territory that is now part of modern Albania, North Macedonia, Greece, and European Turkey as a contin ...

which passed near the city. Lined with shops and office buildings, it is one of the busiest streets of

Gallery

File:Thessaloniki horse trams.jpg, Horse trams in Egnatia, 1916 File:Galerius Triumphbogen 1920 - 2.jpg, The tram and the arch, 1920 File:Galerius Arch (Thessaloniki).jpg,

Arch of Galerius The Arch of Galerius () or Kamara (Καμάρα) and the Rotunda (Ροτόντα) are neighbouring early 4th-century AD monuments in the city of Thessaloniki, in the region of Central Macedonia in northern Greece. As an outstanding example of earl ...

File:Chapel of Transfiguration Salonica.jpg, Chapel of the Saviour on Egnatia File:Kirche Panagia Dexia in Thessaloniki.jpg, Panagia Dexia church File:Αγορά Κολόμβου,1935, Οδός Εγνατίας 31-Πτολεμαίων 22, Θεσσαλονίκη.jpg, Stoa (Market) Colombou File:Ξενοδοχείο «Μινέρβα» (1929), Εγνατίας 44, Θεσσαλονίκη.jpg, Hotel Minerva File:Ξενοδοχείο Μεγάλη Βρετανία 1924, Οδός Εγνατίας 48, Θεσσαλονίκη.jpg, The former Hotel Gran Bretagne (arch. Max Rubens) File:20160516 277 thessaloniki.jpg, Egnatia/Iasonidou

References

Thessaloniki Streets in Thessaloniki {{Greece-road-stub