Biblical Tours Greece

Follow in the footsteps of Saint Paul in northern Greece

Doing biblical tours in Greece? Want to visit the prison of Paul the apostle (photo - and as Rembrandt pictured it, below)?

Our small hotel is a convenient and comfortable place to stay if you are following the journeys of apostle Paul in northern Greece.

Read what other pilgrims who stayed with us say here.



 We are situated only a twenty minutes drive from Kavala, where Paul landed after sailing in from the island of Samothrake.

Philippi, where Paul held his famous speech to the Philippians and Lydia, where the first woman of Europe was baptized by him, is only 35 minutes drives from our place.

Kavala and Philippi was visited by the apostle Paul in 49 or 50 AD, during his second missionary journey. According to the book of Acts, he was guided there by a vision of "a man of Macedonia". He travelled together with Silas, Timotheus, and Lukas.

Paul preached in Philippi and met with some Jewish women, gathered at the river to the west of the city. There Paul baptized Lydia, a purple dye merchant, who invited the missionaries to stay at her home. The place has since been named after her.

Today, on this very spot, you´ll find a beautiful baptistery. In the river there is created a small bench and theater in marble, for baptism of adults.

In another account recorded in Acts, Paul drove out an evil spirit from a slave girl who worked as a fortune teller. Her owners became angry and dragged Paul and Silas into the marketplace and complained about them before the magistrates. A crowd joined in the condemnation, and the missionaries were stripped and flogged, then thrown into prison. At midnight, however, a great earthquake came and the prison doors flew open. The jailer nearly killed himself over it, but Paul talked him out of it and converted him. The next morning, the magistrates released Paul and Silas and asked them to leave the city.

The cage-like prison, pictured above, is referred to as the prison of saint Paul and you can visit it at the ancient site of Philippi. However, archeologists, doubt that this actually was the place the apostle was imprisoned. Still, the place is worth visiting!

Paul visited the city on two other occasions, in 56 and 57 AD. The letter he wrote to the Philippians dates from around 54-55 and shows his influence on the population there, who turned towards Christianity as a direct result of his visits.

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