Vitaliano Poselli (1838–1918) was an

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architect from

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, mostly known for his work in the city of

Thessaloniki Thessaloniki (; el, Θεσσαλονίκη, , also known as Thessalonica (), Saloniki, or Salonica (), is the second-largest city in Greece, with over one million inhabitants in its Thessaloniki metropolitan area, metropolitan area, and the capi ...

in northern

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Life

He was born in

Castiglione di Sicilia Castiglione di Sicilia ( Sicilian: ''Castigghiuni di Sicilia'') is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Catania in Sicily, southern Italy. Castiglione di Sicilia lies about east of Palermo and about north of Catania. It bo ...

in 1838, and studied in

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. In 1867, the

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commissioned to him the construction of the Church of Santo Stefano in

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.Greece: Modern Architectures in History, by Alexander Tzonis, Alcestis P. Rodi
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sent him to

(then known as Selânik), where he built some of 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.Colonas, Vassilis. "Vitaliano Poselli: An Italian Architecture in Thessaloniki.”
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Some of his most known works are the Idadiè Imperial College, today's Philosophy Faculty of the

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(1888), the Government House (''Konak'') (1891), the Imperial Army Headquarters, today the Greek III Army Corps Headquarters, the New Mosque (1902), the

Allatini Mills 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. Moses Allatini operated ...

, the Karipeion Melathron, the State Conservatory building (former Ottoman Bank), the Stoa Malakopi (formerly

Banque de Salonique The Banque de Salonique (Bank of Thessaloniki, gr, Τράπεζα Θεσσαλονίκης, tr, Selanik Bankası) was a regional bank headquartered in Thessaloniki and Istanbul. Created in 1886 under the initial leadership of the Salonica Je ...

), the Bank of Athens building (today the

Jewish Museum of Thessaloniki The Jewish Museum of Thessaloniki ( el, Εβραϊκό Μουσείο Θεσσαλονίκης, lad, Museo Djidio De Salonik) is a museum in Thessaloniki, Central Macedonia, Greece presenting the history of Sephardic Jews and Jewish life in ...

Villa Allatini Villa Allatini ( el, 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 ...

(for the Allatini family, today housing the

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), 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 the Greeks from Thessaloniki who died for the France in the First World War), Quarto, Quinto and Sesto or Emilio) and two daughters. Singer Luisa Poselli was his relative. He had also a younger brother, Salvatore, who designed also some buildings in Thessaloniki. He died in 1918 and is buried in the Catholic cemetery of St Vincent in Thessaloniki. Many of his descendants still live in the city.

Gallery

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War Museum of Thessaloniki The War Museum of Thessaloniki ( el, Πολεμικό Μουσείο Θεσσαλονίκης ''Polemiko Mousio Thessalonikis'') is a military museum in Thessaloniki, Central Macedonia, Greece. Thessaloniki War Museum opened in October 2000. It i ...

File:Headquarters of the Third Army Corps, Thessalonki.jpg, Army HQs

References

Sources

*Mark Mazower, Θεσσαλονίκη: "Πόλη των Φαντασμάτων", εκδόσεις Αλεξάνδρια, 2006, {{DEFAULTSORT:Poselli, Vitaliano 1838 births 1918 deaths People from Castiglione di Sicilia 19th-century Italian architects Ottoman Thessalonica Architects from Sicily Italian expatriates in Greece Architecture of Thessaloniki