As “PHILIPPI PARK” is characterized the native receptor of 8.000 years of history of the people of the Philippi region. Between the mountains of Paggaio, Falakro, Menoikio and Simvolo, where it was the old lake Prasiada, today is the fertile plain of Philippi, one of its kind, which hosted per centuries people and their activities, those that were written in history and make this place special.
This place of unique natural beauty is associated with the Orphic and Dionysian cult, the abduction of Persephone by Hades, Nysion field of Elefsina and at the end with the most profound mystic searches that are still guiding human soul which seeks them. It has become the cradle of prehistoric people and hosted the Thracian tribes and the wealth of auriferous PAGGAIO. It has seen battles at Roman times with Cassious and Brutus, battles that reflected in Shakespeare and later marked the passage to the new religion of Christianity with the baptism of Lydia by Saint Paul.