The Allatini Mills is a large former industrial area in the city of Thessaloniki , Greece near Kalamaria district. The name comes from the famous Allatini flourmills founded by the Allatini family in the late 19th century.
7-622: Moses Allatini operated a roller mill and pottery; his sons founded the Fratelli Allatini company. In 1854 they built the first steam mill in Thessaloniki, together with Darblay de Corblay ; they acquired the whole property in 1882. The present-day central building of the Mills was constructed in 1898 according to plans by Vitaliano Poselli after the previous building burnt down. It was inaugurated on 19 September 1900. The building complex includes
14-459: Is characterized as historical scheduled monument and there are various plans for its restoration. The new Allatini industrial facilities are located in Sindos . 40°35′47″N 22°57′8″E / 40.59639°N 22.95222°E / 40.59639; 22.95222 Vitaliano Poselli Vitaliano Poselli (1840-1918) was an Italian architect from Sicily , mostly known for his work in
21-985: The Greek III Army Corps Headquarters, the New Mosque (1902), the Allatini Mills , the Karipeion Melathron , the State Conservatory building (former Ottoman Bank), the Stoa Malakopi (formerly Banque de Salonique ), the Bank of Athens building (today the Jewish Museum of Thessaloniki ), Villa Allatini (for the Allatini family, today housing the prefecture ), Villa Morpurgo/Zardinidi, the Catholic church of
28-734: The Immaculate Conception (1897), the Armenian church (1903) and the Catholic churches, and the synagogue of Bet Saul (1898, destroyed 1943). He had six sons (Primo, Secondo -a musician-, Terzo (a volunteer who served in France against Germany and died in a motorcycle accident on a bridge, his name is written on a grave, in the French cemetery in Thessaloniki, that reminds the Greeks from Thessaloniki who died for
35-507: The administration building (old residence), warehouses, refrigeration areas and the roller mill building, surrounded by the boiler room, the machine shop and the chimney of Belgian construction. The Allatini Mills was considered "one of the largest, if not the largest, industrial buildings in the Orient, and Poselli's most impressive work". The historical complex, an example of industrial archeology , remains abandoned and awaiting redevelopment. It
42-715: The city of Thessaloniki , in northern Greece . He was born in Castiglione di Sicilia in 1838, and studied in Rome . In 1867, the Catholic Church commissioned to him the construction of the Church of Santo Stefano in Istanbul . From there, the Ottoman government sent him to Thessaloniki (then known as Selânik), where he built some of the most important public edifices of the city. In 1888 he
49-676: Was married and established his residence there. The foreign missions and representatives, such as wealthy merchants of the city, assigned him also the creation of various communal, merchant or private buildings. Some of his most known works are the Idadiè Imperial College, today's Philosophy Faculty of the Aristotle University (1888), the Government House ( Konak ) (1891), the Imperial Army Headquarters, today
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