Hagios Demetrios, Thessaloniki

If you are interested in religious places, don't leave Thessaloniki without visiting this church.

Even if you are not familiar with the history of the church it is definitely worth a visit. You must go down below into the catacombs which have been modified and worked on for centuries.

One of the main churchies in Thessaloniki in the name of st. Demetrius patron of the city. From 4th century AD it withstood Latin and Ottoman Empires, was a mosque for 4 centuries and just survived the great Thessaloniki fire. it was rebuilt with the tombstones from Jewish cemeteries destroyed by the Nazies in 1940s

there was a wonderful smell in all over the church, i recomending this place is worth to see, for sure.

The Church of Saint Demetrius is the main sanctuary dedicated to Saint Demetrius, the patron saint of Thessaloniki , dating from a time when it was the second largest city of the Byzantine Empire. It is part of the site Palaeochristian and Byzantine Monuments of Thessaloniki on the list of World Heritage Sites by UNESCO since 1988. The first church on the spot was constructed in the early 4th century AD, replacing a Roman bath. A century later, a prefect named Leontios replaced the small oratory with a larger, three-aisled basilica. Repeatedly gutted by fires, the church eventually was reconstructed as a five-aisled basilica in 629–634. This was the surviving form of the church much as it is today. The most important shrine in the city, it was probably larger than the local cathedral