Experience and dedication to customer service
The butcher store of Apostolos Papadopoulos Meat Company has been operating since 1939 in the Municipal Market of Xanthi and serves the retail customers, residents and visitors of the city on a daily basis.
It offers the whole range of company’s products:
The butcher store is a certified distributor of organic meat and has replaced all single-use plastic carrier bags with others made of plant-based starch, fully biodegradable and compostable.
Butcher store’s daily operation animal waste is collected, along with those of other butchers in the Municipal Market, who wish so and are transferred to the company’s rendering unit for sterilization and environmentally appropriate management.
With just one call customers can enjoy free of charge shopping delivery service.
According to the late historian Thomas Exarchou, the construction work of the Municipal Market began on June 13th 1938 and was completed in 1939. The Market was founded by Eleftherios Venizelos, Pirme Minister of Greece, during the mayorship of Pygmalion Christidis.
The Market operation began in July 1940, but was interrupted by the entry of the Bulgarian occupation troops into the city. After 1944, became mandatory for the city’s butcher stores to be housed in the building. Gradually the Market took the form it has during the last decades, based on regulations co-housing of butcher stores, fish stores, fruit, vegetable and grocery stores. According to Thomas Ecxarchou in his famous album with Xanthi’s old photographs, the whole project “costed 9.000.000 drachmas of that time”.
Municipal Market of Xanthi was a groundbreaking construction for the time and can be considered equivalent to the Municipal Market of Chania, which was completed a few years earlier.
Text: Charis Diafonidis, Empros Newspaper
Image: architectural design, Municipality of Xanthi archive
Design editing: Katerina Timotheou, Architect Engineer
The Municipal Market of Xanthi, a listed monument of the interwar period