A blend of ancient and modern: Thessaloniki’s new metro line has just been opened, co-funded by the Connecting Europe Facility of the EU. Over 300,000 ancient artifacts, including Roman heritage, were found during the excavation which are displayed in the stations and along the subwayline

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1. https://www.webuildvalue.com/en/stories-behind-projects/thessaloniki-metro.html

2. That’s amazing, definitely want to see it.

3. How did those things get buried so deep?

4. Kinda crazy how there are entire in big part intact structures literally meters underground under a bustling city. How did they even get there, I mean there were people living there continuously.

5. I was just there. It’ll be kinda like the Sofia metro then. They also have artifacts displayed at the central metro station Serdika.

6. Time to move the Thessaloniki metro memes folder to the recycle bin

7. This is fucking epic, eu money well spent.

8. Absolutely fucking stunning.

9. In Thessaloniki (and Greece as a whole) it used to be a meme, massively delayed, overdue, buried in archaeological disputes and lacking in coverage. Even though these are still valid, it’s beautiful to finally see it open, they did a great job displaying the artifacts and the stations are very modern, clean and easy to navigate

10. Gotta go back to Thessaloniki just to see this! Fabulous!

11. The Greek and Romans were unbelievably brilliant, how have we stagnated and fallen (in many cases) so far?

12. I was there in 2017 when they were constructing the metro. Took them quite a while to do it. Maybe next time build an overhead tramway track and it might be cheaper and faster 😀

13. Interesting to see the sheer volume of artifacts down there. I was aware Rome had to deal with something like this but not anywhere else, at least not on this scale

14. Looks like something I will want visit the next summer 🙂

15. Ancient subway ? wow, checkmate to ppl who say ancient civilizations did not have electricity !

16. This is such a great way to improve the urban infrastructure and still preserve the legacy of that land. Beautifully done

17. On their website, they only mention 130,000 artifacts. The line is 9.6 kilometers long. So they found an artifact every 7 centimeters.

18. It’s a good thing that this kind of preservation is now a priority. At first I thought this was the basement of Las Setas in Seville, when similar ruins were found during construction of what was going to be a carpark.

19. A fine invest

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