Europe’s Mega Project That Found Something Unexpected

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• AU

  @aureentuluva · 10 days ago

  This was a running joke in Greece, people used to say things like "we will colonize Mars before Thessaloniki's metro is completed"

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• TH

  @ThomasKal · 10 days ago

  I was a student when the Thessaloniki Metro started and next year I am retiring.🙃

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  @iitonii · 10 days ago

  Surprise Surprise <br>If you dig under Thessaloniki/Salonicco you find relics <br>WHO COULD EXPECT IT???🤣😂🤣😂

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• MI

  @mikmerl1 · 10 days ago

  Greece is a blessed country <br>everywhere we dig we uncover the amazing past dating back thousands of years &nbsp; &nbsp;<br>very few places in the world can boast museums with myriads of ancient artifacts in almost every subway station &nbsp;<br>the inconvenience of new construction delays and redesigning to work around these ancient treasures is soon forgotten when the project is completed

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• NI

  @nielsjensen4185 · 10 days ago

  One of the metro lines in Rome took several decades to complete due to constantly running into artifacts.

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• EM

  @Emelie_S-e5n · 10 days ago

  Nice to see you reacting to my city. I take this metro almost everyday. Greetings from Thessaloniki!

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• LI

  @lina1911 · 10 days ago

  It must be a nightmare to build anything of this sort of magnitude in Greece. You just never know what you&apos;ll find underneath. <br>But I&apos;m surprised they ignored the archaeologists. Like that lady said, you want to build on Via Egnatia, a major Roman highway, and you don&apos;t think you&apos;ll find ancient artifacts underneath? <br>At least they finished it, even after decades.

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• JU

  @junovzla · 9 days ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvdHkOCSpNI&amp;t=783">13:03</a> as of the posting of this comment, the Kalamaria extension has already been opened and new trains were purchased to increase the fleet size to serve it

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• TE

  @teokon2976 · 9 days ago

  In every town in Greece if u have a piece of land and u want to build a house or whatever, u are terrified of what u might find underneath when the digging happens to lay the foundations.If anything found the delay may take years

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• IK

  @ikonographics · 5 days ago

  There&apos;s nothing &quot;unexpected&quot; about finding ancient ruins in Greece.

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• SO

  @soupiera · 10 days ago

  I haven&apos;t used the Thessaloniki metro yet, but the town is an amazing amalgam of ancient and modern. <br><br>As for Metro projects that came across similar hurdles, the Athens metro is a good example. A lot of the stations double as mini museums exhibiting some of the finds unearthed during construction.

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• BL

  @blue-dragon · 9 days ago

  TBH I do love it when you can look at ancient ruins while going through a metro :o

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