Aristotelous Square

The Prime Minister’s dialogue with students at Aristotelous – New Democracy places special emphasis on Northern Greece ahead of the European elections.

Police in Thessaloniki issued a ban on public gatherings on Tuesday amid concerns about a rally that was being planned to protest a screening at the northern port city's annual documentary festival.

According to reports, a rally was being planned at 7 p.m. outside the festival's flagship Olympion cinema on downtown Aristotelous Square.

Nine people jailed in Greece will be tried Monday over accusations they harassed and threatened two 21-year-old transgender persons in the northern city of Thessaloniki.

The nine were remanded after appearing before a prosecutor Sunday. Twelve other people, all minors, were released provisionally pending trial on the same charges before a juvenile court.

Police arrested 21 individuals for attacking two transgender people late on Saturday in the northern port city of Thessaloniki, including 11 minors who were later released under orders of a prosecutor. 

They are facing charges of serial verbal abuse with racist motives, while two of the adults were additionally charged with attempted serial simple bodily harm, with racist motives.

The Thessaloniki municipal authority is meeting Monday to discuss a tender for giving the northern port city's iconic Aristotelous Square a much-needed facelift.

The aim of the competition is to spruce up and modernize an area of 32,500 square meters in the city center, stretching from the coastal front to Egnatia Avenue, but also to make it more pedestrian- and wheelchair-friendly.

The Thessaloniki Film Festival will be holding a special screening of Giuseppe Tornatore's well-loved 1988 Italian drama "Cinema Paradiso," at Aristotelous Square on Wednesday, September 4. Hailed as a favorite for film buffs, "Cinema Paradiso" is a nostalgic account of a filmmaker's first love for cinema, growing up as a child in Sicily in the aftermath of World War II.

Greek Communist-affiliated trade union PAME on Thursday announced a rally for September 7, ahead of the opening of Thessaloniki's annual International Fair (TIF).

The union accuses ruling New Democracy of implementing measures that undermine labor rights, following the "anti-labor legacy" of leftist SYRIZA.

The rally will be held on central Aristotelous square, at 6 p.m.

In Edit, a festival dedicated to music documentaries, is on at the Olympion cinema in Aristotelous Square and the port complex movie theaters through Sunday, April 21, featuring 22 films from different parts of the world and parallel events.

It first appeared on the Thessaloniki waterfront in 1995 during the northern port city's Dimitria cultural festival, in the location now occupied by George Zongolopoulos's iconic Umbrellas sculpture.

Greek basketball legend Panagiotis Giannakis high-fives a young fan in Thessaloniki's central Aristotelous Square ahead of the All Star Game basketball events at the city's Nick Galis Hall on the weekend. The events featured rising and former stars of the Greek Basketball League. [INTIME NEWS]