Which port?

Methoni vs. Pydna Greece. On our way south along the Aegean coast we stopped at two ancient ports. The first was Methoni. There is a small chapel and monument dedicated to Paul’s passage through Methoni as he left Berea hastily to escape the wrath of the Jews from Thessaloniki who pursued him in Berea. Nearby is the ancient port city of Pydna. Paul would have sailed from one of these ports to Athens.

The Pydna site was very interesting with artifacts from the Neolithic period, to the Macedonians then pre-Christian Roman and then an important early Christian church (as evidenced by tombs of bishops) and finally a Frankish period in which the basilica was converted to a castle.

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