City Tour of Thessaloniki
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City Tour of Thessaloniki
- Start Time: 10:00 AM (Draft Itinerary)
- 10:10am - 11:15am: Ancient Agora
- 11:30am - 12:30pm: St. Demetrios
- 12:45pm - 1:30pm: Aghia Sofia
- Lunch at Leisure
- 3:00pm: Transfer to the Archeological Museum
- 3:15pm - 5:00pm: Archeological Museum Guided Tour (Museum Closes at 5:00pm)
- Transfer Back to Hotel
- End Time: 6:00 PM
- Duration: 8hr
- Meeting Point: Hotel lobby - Entrance
Thessaloniki is the city where Paul shared the gospel message and experienced much opposition. Here Paul established a church to which he addressed his Thessalonian epistles. View the Old City Ramparts, and the Galerius Arch that rises over the Via Egnatia. Visit the Archaeological Museum and the Ancient Agora. See two of the most beautiful basilicas in the city, St. Sophia and the 4th-century church St. Demetrios.
You will have the opportunity to walk the streets and pass through the Byzantine churches overlooking Thermaikos Gulf. Thessaloniki was named in honor of a woman who herself had been named to commemorate a military victory, that of her father, Philip II, over a tribe in Thessaly with the help of crack Thessalian horsemen. This royal daughter grew up to marry the Macedonian general Kassandros, and after he named the city for her in 316 BC, Thessaloniki’s name would forever be on the lips of all who would ever experience the city. Under Emperor Galerius in the early 4th century AD, Thessaloniki became the eastern imperial capital, and with the empire’s division later that century, it became Byzantium’s second city, a flourishing Constantinople in miniature
Acts 17:1-9.
Activity Info
Schedule
Start Time
Sep 16 10:00AM EEST
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End Time
Sep 16 6:00PM EEST
Location
Thessaloniki