{"id":243112,"date":"2025-09-22T17:34:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T14:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/?p=243112"},"modified":"2025-09-22T17:40:18","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T14:40:18","slug":"priggipos-nikolaou","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/priggipos-nikolaou\/","title":{"rendered":"Priggipos Nikolaou"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Christos Zabounis<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

The landing at \u201cMacedonia\u201d airport held no surprises. The Russian (?) cyberattack on the European boarding systems had not affected Thessaloniki. \u201cWhere to?\u201d asked the taxi driver with the impatience of someone who had been waiting for hours. \u201cPriggipos Nikolaou and Agias Sofias,\u201d I said. He typed the address into the GPS, but it couldn\u2019t find it. \u201cThere\u2019s only one Priggipos Nikolaou side street in the Municipality of Pavlos Melas,\u201d he remarked. \u201cExcuse me, it\u2019s the old name of Alexandrou Svolou.\u201d A confessed sin is no sin. It\u2019s not the first time I\u2019ve \u201ctroubled\u201d taxi drivers this way. I see it as an act of resistance against the inconceivable renaming carried out by municipal authorities who thought they could erase, in this way, a brilliant period of history. But who was Prince Nikolaos? He was the first military governor of Thessaloniki after its liberation in 1912. His presence there, along with that of his father, King George I, served as a bulwark against Bulgarian expansionism. Beyond his national role, however, he was the artist of the royal family. A painter\u2014signing his works as Nicolas Leprince\u2014he also wrote plays, and he was bequeathed the Royal Theatre, today the National Theatre. In the margins of his multifaceted activities, he even \u201cmanaged\u201d to become the godfather of Kostas Simitis. I remembered Nikolaos on the occasion of his namesake descendant\u2019s participation in this year\u2019s \u201cArt Athina.\u201d It seems that not only the crown, but also Art, can be inherited.<\/p>\n

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Stefanidou Tsoukala Gallery<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Photo of\u00a0 Nikolaos at \u201cArt Athina\u201d with Lora Tsoukala.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by Christos Zabounis The landing at \u201cMacedonia\u201d airport held no surprises. The Russian (?) cyberattack on the European boarding systems had not affected Thessaloniki. \u201cWhere to?\u201d asked the taxi driver with the impatience of someone who had been waiting for hours. \u201cPriggipos Nikolaou and Agias Sofias,\u201d I said. He typed the address into the GPS, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":243109,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18496],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243112"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243112"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":243118,"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243112\/revisions\/243118"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}