Shantou Travel Guide

The waterfront promenade is an elegant, relaxed seafront walkway in Thessaloniki facing the sea—this modern promenade stretching along the Thermaic Gulf, connecting the White Tower and the city, is a pleasant place for locals to relax, stroll and watch the sea, and a great spot to feel this seaside city's leisurely air. Thessaloniki is a coastal city on the blue Thermaic Gulf, and the waterfront promenade (especially the modernized New Waterfront, Nea Paralia) is the city's most relaxed, pleasant seaside space. This promenade extends gracefully along the Thermaic Gulf coastline for several kilometers (south from the landmark White Tower area)—a wide, flat, modern seafront path, with the blue, vast Thermaic Gulf on one side (sea and sky as one, open and magnificent, a great spot for sea views, especially the sunset at sea) and the city's green spaces, gardens and blocks on the other. Carefully modern-designed, it is dotted along the way with a series of themed gardens, green spaces, sculptures and art installations (such as the famous Umbrellas sculpture and the equestrian statue of Alexander the Great), modern and design-rich, comfortable and pleasant. The promenade is an indispensable part of Thessaloniki citizens' life and a vivid expression of the city's leisurely air—people stroll, jog, cycle, walk dogs here, or sit on seaside benches watching the sea, daydreaming, watching the sunset; cafés line the route. Walking or cycling this elegant promenade, feeling the Thermaic Gulf breeze, looking at the blue sea, admiring the gardens and sculptures along the way, awaiting the sea sunset, is cozy and serene. Visiting Thessaloniki, strolling the waterfront promenade and feeling the seaside city's leisurely air is a pleasant sight in Thessaloniki.

Shantou Old Town lies in Shantou, Guangdong, China, a modern arcade district centered on the Small Park Pavilion and radiating outward — hailed as 'China's only intact ring-radial arcade city.' Once the hub of Teochew commerce and qiaoxiang (overseas-Chinese) culture, its red-brick arcades, century-old merchant signs and time-honored brands keep a Nanyang (Southeast Asian) flavor. Stroll for beef balls, oyster omelet and kway snacks, feeling the everyday life and diaspora memory of an open-port city.