Filippoi

Filippoi (Greek: Φίλιπποι, Philippi), is a village and a former municipality in the Kavala regional unit, East Macedonia and Thrace, Greece built on the Via Egnatia.

The most important cultural event of the town is its annual festival, held since 1957.

[4] This ancient Greek theatre dates to 357 BC, possibly built King Philip II.

[4] The town has an Archeological Museum with two floors of exhibition space and houses four major collections from pre-historic to Early Christian.

On the outskirts of the town at the riverside is an outdoor Baptistery, built on the site where it is believed the purple merchant, Lydia of Thyatira, and her household were baptised by the Apostle Paul around 49/50 AD.

A modern Greek Orthodox outdoor chapel on what is said to be the site where Lydia was baptized.