Salonica - Patrician Houses / Villa Allatini

In the southwestern suburb of Kalamaria in Salonica are numbers of fine 19th century villas and mansions, many of them designed by Italian architects in neo-classical style.

One such house of some historical interest is the Villa Allatini (designed by the Italian architect Vitaliano Poselli, 1896), in which the deposed Sultan Abdul Hamid II was confined from 1909 to 1912. From 1926 it was occupied by the newly founded University.