“Today we are not only lighting up the White Tower, but all of Thessaloniki and all of Macedonia, because this government’s attention is focused on Thessaloniki and on Macedonia,” Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said in a speech at the ceremony marking the completion of the project to illuminate the White Tower, which was attended by President of the Republic Konstantinos Tasoulas.
“It would have been very unfair to the city’s history if the government had limited its work to completing the major infrastructure projects that Thessaloniki had waited many decades for. Since 2019, together with the culture minister, Lina Mendoni, we have made a deliberate choice: to showcase Thessaloniki’s rich cultural history over the centuries through important projects. In Thessaloniki, these are worth more than €100 million in national and European funding, and the results are already visible,” the prime minister said.
“With the new lighting inaugurated tonight, the White Tower really does look white,” Culture Minister Lina Mendoni said, among other things.