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Toumba, Thessaloníki — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Toumba is a dense district on the eastern slopes of Thessaloníki, split into Ano Toumba above and Kato Toumba below. Toumba Stadium is PAOK's ground.
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Where to stay in Toumba
How the choice of base plays out on the ground.
Few travellers book a room in Toumba, and that is worth saying plainly. It is a lived-in residential quarter, thin on hotels and shaped around the people who live here rather than around visitors. The reason to stay is narrow but real: on match days the lanes near Toumba Stadium fill with PAOK supporters, and a bed nearby drops you into that atmosphere.
Anyone here mainly to sightsee is better off in the seafront centre of Thessaloníki, a short bus ride west, where the hotels and the famous monuments cluster. Come for the football; sleep in town.
Things to do in and around Thessaloníki
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Museums & Galleries
3- White Tower of Thessaloniki Heritage
- Museum for the Macedonian Struggle Heritage
- Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki
Churches & Religious Sites
8- Hagia Sophia Heritage
- Rotunda Heritage
- Church of the Acheiropoietos Heritage
- New Mosque Heritage
- Church of Saint Nicholas Orphanos Heritage
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- Church of Saint Panteleimon Heritage
- Church of the Saviour Heritage
- Saint Athanasius Church, Thessaloniki Heritage
Castles & Historic Sites
2- Arch of Galerius and Rotunda Heritage
- Galerius palace Heritage
Stadiums & Sports
1- Alexandreio Melathron
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About Toumba
What are the main landmarks in Toumba?
Toumba's landmark is not a church but a football ground. Toumba Stadium, the home of PAOK, dominates the district and pulls crowds from across the city on match nights. This quarter also keeps the ancient mound it is named for, a prehistoric settlement site of the kind archaeologists call a toumba, built up layer on layer over centuries.
The city's celebrated monuments lie elsewhere. The White Tower stands on the distant seafront, and the Rotunda sits near the old centre, both a ride away from this hillside.
What is the history of Toumba?
The district's name comes from a toumba, the Greek word for an ancient settlement mound. Such mounds rose across northern Greece in the Bronze and early Iron Age, built up century after century as timber-and-mudbrick houses collapsed and were rebuilt on the same spot; they answer to the tell sites of the Near East. One such prehistoric mound stood on this eastern edge of Thessaloníki and lent the quarter its name.
The modern neighbourhood is far younger. It grew through the twentieth century as the city spread inland from the shore, filling the slopes with the dense apartment blocks that define it.
Where is Toumba?
The district climbs the hills of Thessaloníki's east side, above and behind the old centre. Charilaou adjoins it to the south, while Triandria sits to the north-west. Higher up, the city's ring road traces the crest of the slope; downhill to the west the ground falls toward the Thermaic Gulf. The sea stays a distant view.
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Updated October 2026