Villa Allatini ( Greek : Βίλλα Αλλατίνι ) is a three-storey baroque building on Vasilissis Olgas Avenue in the area of Depot in the east of the Municipality of Thessaloniki , Greece . It was constructed in 1898 when Thessaloniki was part of the Ottoman Empire .
7-499: It was built in 1898 by the Italian architect Vitaliano Poselli , who also designed the Mills of Allatini that were founded in 1890, and the head office of Allatini-affiliated Banque de Salonique in downtown Thessaloniki. At that time the region where the villa is located was called the district of "Countrysides" (des Campagnes) or "Towers", and was the easternmost limit of Thessaloniki . In
14-1072: The Government House ( Konak ) (1891), the Imperial Army Headquarters, today 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
21-817: The prefecture ), Villa Morpurgo/Zardinidi, the Catholic church of 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
28-638: The first period of its use, the villa was the countryside residence of the Salonica Jewish Allatini family . After the emergence of the Young Turks movement, from 1909 until 1911 it was used as the residence of the sultan Abdul Hamid II , who after his unseating by the Young Turks lived there under house arrest. In 1926 it housed the Philosophical School for one year, the unique department of
35-529: The most important public edifices of the city. In 1888 he 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),
42-827: The newly founded University of Thessaloniki , while during the Greco-Italian War (1940-1941) it was used as a hospital. From 1979 the Prefecture of Thessaloniki had its headquarters in Villa Allatini. In 2011 after the implementation of the Kallikratis Plan , the prefecture was abolished and replaced by regional self-governing bodies. Today Villa Allatini houses the administration of the region of Central Macedonia . 40°35′34″N 22°57′21″E / 40.5929°N 22.9557°E / 40.5929; 22.9557 Vitaliano Poselli Vitaliano Poselli (1840-1918)
49-727: Was an Italian architect from Sicily , mostly known for his work in 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
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