EMT Between the history and the legend



Gods and humans gave their blessing to Eastern Macedonia and Thrace. And those who visit it and really get to know it, they leave literally enchanted! Dionysus taught the cultivation of the vine to humans, and they loved him. Odysseus got cyclop Polyphemus drunk with Maronitiko wine in his cave on the coast of Thrace and managed to escape with his comrades. Winery continues uninterrupted until now, thanks to the innumerable vineyards throughout the region. Beyond the legend, Democritus, Protagoras and Leucippus, great scien - tists and philosophers, laid the foundations for the theory of relativity in those lands. A great technical project of antiquity, Via Egnatia was crossing the towns of Eastern Macedonia and Thrace and connecting them with the centers of that period. One of its important stations, the ancient city of Philippi was named af - ter its founder and father of Alexander the Great; it was there that the famous homonymous battle was held in 42 BC between Octavian and Mark Antony on one side and Brutus and Cassius, the murderers of Julius Caesar, on the other side. Apostle Paul passed from Philippi where he baptized Lydia, the first Euro - pean Christian and planted in Kavala the first seeds of Christianity in Europe. If you also want to experience the homeland of Victory of Samothraki and live your own myth, come to Eastern Macedonia and Thrace!