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The tetrarchic Palace in Thessaloniki was an extensive urban planning project that reshaped the city's form at the end of the third century. Usually, it is regarded as an integral design that comprises the Palace with all its annexes, the hippodrome, the triumphal arch, and the rotunda together with Thessaloniki's eastern walls. Recent interpretations, especially those regarding the Rotunda, have led to a more sober understanding of the fact that, although possibly conceived as whole, it might consist of several building phases. In most of its structures there are indications of additions and alterations that speak of its formation in even more building phases, spanning a longer period than has been accepted.
In this paper I aim to examine all cases of reconstruction and alterations carried out in several parts of the Palace's group of buildings. Moreover, I will propose a new way of understanding its integration into the urban grid and the way it affected the function of this part of the city.