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| | The district of "Pirgoi" in Thessaloniki |
 | | Paul Lindau, who visited their mansion in 1888, remembered that "the forecourt, where the members of the Allatini family had gathered to welcome their guests, was lit up by many portable lampstands, each with six lamps, arrayed at every point of the courtyard. |
 | | The younger members of the family, who had exchanged the beautiful costumes of their ancestors for dull Western clothes, led us from the wide staircase, carpeted with impressive, beautiful, thick rugs, to the wonderfully illuminated ceremonial hall on the first floor. |
 | | Lindau was also impressed by the mansion's guest rooms, which lay off the courtyard, and extolled the view over the Thermaic Gulf, the view at which, twenty years later, Abdul Hamid would gaze in frustration for hours on end, exiled and imprisoned in the Allatini villa after his failed coup. |
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