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Top 10 sights in Kavala

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   Philippi

   A city founded by Philip II in 356 BC for the gold in the hills behind it. Antony and Octavian defeated Brutus and Cassius on the plain below in 42 BC, and Paul preached here in about AD 49, making it the first Christian community in Europe. World Heritage since 2016.

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   Halil Bey mosque

   A mosque that stood at Kavala, built under the Ottomans in the 1530s. It was abandoned in the 1820s and now opens as a museum.

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   Archaeological Museum of Kavala

   A museum at Kavala in Eastern Macedonia in Greece. It was founded in 1934 and reopened in 1964 in its present building, designed by Patouros and Triantafyllidis.

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   Dikili Tash

   A prehistoric settlement mound of four and a half hectares standing sixteen metres above the Drama plain in Eastern Macedonia in Greece, a kilometre and a half east of ancient Philippi.

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   St Nicola church

   An Orthodox church at Kavala in Eastern Macedonia in Greece. It was built as the Ibrahim Pasha mosque under the Ottomans and converted into a church in the modern period.

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   Kavala Fortress

   A medieval fortress on the headland above Kavala, rebuilt in the fifteenth century on Byzantine foundations. The walls are open as an archaeological site and the courtyard is used for summer performances.

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   Kavala Municipal Museum

   A museum at Kavala in Greece. It opened in 1986 in a neoclassical building, moved into a tobacco warehouse in 2001, and shows contemporary art, local painters and the work of the sculptor Polygnotos Vagis.

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   Archaeological Museum of Philippi

   The museum beside the ruins of Philippi, opened in 1961 and rebuilt since, holding finds from the city Philip II founded in 356 BC and from the Roman colony that followed. Sculpture, inscriptions and grave goods fill its rooms.

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   Oesyme

   A Greek city between the Strymon and the Nestos in ancient Thrace. It was a colony of Thasos and went over to Sparta after Brasidas took Amphipolis in 424 BC.

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    Saint Paul Church, Kavala

    An Orthodox church in Kavala, Eastern Macedonia, Greece, opened in 1926.

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   Pistyros

   A Greek city on the Edonis coast of ancient Thrace. It was a colony of Thasos, and the army of Xerxes I passed through it after crossing the Nestos.

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   Historical and Ethnographical Museum of the Cappadocian Greeks

   A museum in the village of Nea Karvali, eight kilometres from Kavala in Greece. It began in 1981 when young people of the village set up a cultural centre and gathered documents, photographs, clothing and icons from Cappadocia.

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