Sights

• the archaeological site of Philippi. First residents were colonists from Thassos in 360 B.C. who founded the city Krinides. When the city was endangered from the Thracians they turned to the Macedonian king Philippos II for help, who forseeing its strategic position, conquered, and fortified and renamed it Philippi. After the battle of Philippi, where Oktavianos and Antonios won Vroutos and Kasios, the city became a Roman colony and prospered because of its position on Egnatia Road.
Later in 50 Apostle Paul founded here the first christian church in Europe and baptized the first European Christian. This made Philippi a metropolis of Christianity. During the Byzantine period (963- 969 AD.) the city walls were reconstructed and the towers and the wall of the acropolis were built.
Today in the area are saved characteristic monuments from the Hellenistic, Roman and Early Christian periods.

Most important of them are: The walls and the acropolis, the theatre built from king Philippos II in the 4th century B.C., the Agora (market) that is a group of buildings around a central square. The Palaestra. The prison of Apostole Paul.
Basilica A, a large, three-aisled basilica 130x50 metres of the 5th century.
Basilica B, a three-aisled basilica dated in 550.
Basilica C, an impressive three-aisled basilica with narthex and transept dated to the 6th century.

• the big forest in the narrowest point of river Nestos, a paradise with rich flora and fauna and the protected water biotope of Nestos with rare plants and wild birds and animals.

• the Citadel of Kavala dated at the beginning of the 15th century.

• the Coastal Walls a part of the medieval fortification that encompasses the rocky peninsula of the traditional settlement of Panagia.