Varosi

The neighbourhood is in the southeast of Edessa, south of the Waterfalls Park.{{cite book |author=Korina Miller |title=Greece |location=Footscray, Victoria|publisher=Lonely Planet Publications |year=2018 |edition=13th |isbn=9781786574466 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Nb1TDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT537 }} It was originally located next to the rock that had been the site of the Byzantine acropolis,{{cite book |author=Maurice Cerasi|title=Multicultural Urban Fabric and Types in the South and Eastern Mediterranean |location=Beirut |publisher=Orient Institut |year=2007 |isbn=9783899135923 |page=146}} so it is built along the top of a cliff on the remains of the citadel and the city walls, overlooking the site of the ancient city.{{cite web |url=https://visit-centralmacedonia.gr/en-us/PLACES-TO-GO/Pella/cid/7/title/varosi-of-edessa |title=Pella: Varosi of Edessa |website=Visit Central Macedonia |access-date=11 June 2023}}

Varosi was the first Christian section of Edessa.{{cite web |url=https://edessia.gr/en/varosi-traditional-district/ |title=Varosi Traditional District |website=Edessia |access-date=12 June 2023 }} Its walls withstood Turkish bombardment for eight months, after which they were torn down; Christians there continued to worship under the Ottomans.{{cite book |editor1=Julia Bonnheim |editor2=Simon William Vozick-Levinson |title=Let's Go: Greece |edition=8th |location=New York |publisher=St. Martin's |year=2006 |isbn=978-0-312-34885-4|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_MwqOMmoMOIC&pg=PA303 |page=303}}

During the Nazi occupation of Greece, resistance fighters used Varosi as a base, because their knowledge of the neighbourhood and its proximity to the plains made it relatively easy to escape searchers. As a result, the Germans burnt a large part of the neighbourhood in 1944.

Varosi is the only old quarter of the city to have survived. It was declared a traditional settlement in 1983, and has been restored. Several 19th-century houses in traditional Macedonian style are preserved, including some mansions. They characteristically have stone foundations and protruding upper storeys supported by wooden beams.

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• {{ill|Old Metropolitan Cathedral of Edessa|el|Ναός της Κοίμησης της Θεοτόκου (Έδεσσα)}} (Church of the Dormition of the Mother of God){{cite book |title=Προσκυνηματικές περιηγήσεις στην Περιφερειακή Ενότητα Πέλλας |year=2007 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=F_YPEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA4 |page=4 }}{{cite web |author=G. Stalidis |url=http://odysseus.culture.gr/h/2/eh251.jsp?obj_id=1762 |title=Church of the Dormition of Virgin Mary (Old Cathedral) |website=Odysseus |publisher=Ministry of Culture and Sports |access-date=12 June 2023 }}
• {{ill|Saints Peter and Paul Church, Edessa|mk|Црква „Св. Петар и Павле“ - Воден}}{{cite web |author=R. Palanta |url=http://www.edessacity.gr/tourism/ed800-12_en.htm |title=Byzantine Church St. Peter & St. Paul |website=City of Edessa |access-date=12 June 2023 }}
• {{ill|Intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary Church, Edessa|mk|Црква „Покров на Пресвета Богородица“ - Воден}}
• Edessa Ecclesiastical Museum
• Folklore Museum of Edessa

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