Make your way to your local airport, where you will board your overnight flight(s). Onboard, meals will be served to you.

Upon landing at Athens Airport, make your way to the baggage claim area and collect your luggage. Proceed to the Arrival’s Hall, where you will be greeted by your tour guide and/-or driver. Board the bus to transfer to your hotel. Enjoy some time to relax after check-in. After a delicious meal, overnight in Athens.

Start the day with breakfast and then visit the Holy Monastery of Jerusalem which architecture is inspired by the New Jerusalem (John 21:13). Holy Mass at garden at the Tree of Life. Short nature walks in the cedars forest to a hermit’s cave, panoramic view of Valley of Boeotia. Drive to Arachova, the famous shepherd’s village and enjoy the panoramic view of the Ionian Sea. Proceed to Delphi: visit the archeological museum: the Gallio inscription, on which the dating of the life of Paul is based (Acts 18:12), the Sphinx of Thebes, Temple of Athena, Goddess of Wisdom (the philosophical background of Paul, the hellenised Jew). Dinner and overnight in Delphi.

After breakfast, we will board our transfer and drive to Meteora – one of Europe’s most beautiful landscapes views of the “stone mushroom” of Agia Triada. Visit the western monasteries. St. Paul as the first Christian hermit. Holy Mass at a panoramic terrace in front of Meteora cliffs. Evening tour of the illuminated cliffs of Meteora. Arrival at our hotel in time for Dinner and overnight in Kalambaka.

Today, after breakfast, we will visit Vergina – the golden treasures of the ancient kings of Macedonia. Veria: walk along the Barbuta river into the old Jewish quarter. Visit the ancient synagogue and see the Bema where Paul spoke to the Bereans (Acts 17). Holy Mass at the Berea ancient synagogue. Drive along the Aegean coast to Thessaloniki. Visit the Jewish quarter: the Synagogue, the Ancient Jewish Bath house and the Modiano market (Acts 17, 1Thessalonians 1). Arrive in Thessaloniki for dinner and overnight.

Early morning breakfast followed by a drive east to Philippi: visit Paul’s Jail (Acts 16), the Christian Basilica, the Greco-Roman round theatre. Lydia baptismal site at Zigakti river (Acts 16:15). Holy Mass at the Lydia baptismal site. A short walk along Via Egnatia, where Paul walked on his way to Thessaloniki. Dinner and overnight in Thessaloniki.

Start the day with breakfast and then drive across the Macedonian river delta to Mt Olympus. Visit the panoramic village of Litochoro and proceed to Greece’s biggest nature reserve – Mt Olympus: nature walk near Stavros, enjoy panoramic views of Mytikas, traditional place of Palace of the Gods, visit Agios Dionysius – ancient monastery named after the first Athenian converted by Paul (Acts 17:34). Pinios River – walk in suspension bridge to visit the holy cave of baptismal site with the big fresco of St Paul. Proceed to Larissa where we will check-in to your Hotel, followed by dinner and then overnight.

After breakfast we depart for Larissa. While there, we will visit the ancient Roman Theatre, the Byzantine acropolis. Holy Mass at the Catholic Church of Larissa. Drive up to Mt. Metamorphosis and enjoy the panoramic view of the Gulf of Kamena Vourla. A short walk will bring us to the monastery commemorating Jesus’s transfiguration. Visit the monastic garden and the wall painted church with the famous description of Jesus’s Transfiguration. Proceed to Athens for checkin, followed by dinner and overnight.

This morning, we enjoy breakfast and then head west to the Peloponnesian Peninsula & Corinth. Jeff’s first teaching is here. Paul stayed in Corinth at least 3 times while on his journeys (Acts 18:1-18; 20:3), working as a tentmaker while establishing the Corinthian church with the help of locals like Aquila & Priscilla (Acts 18:1- 18). He wrote Romans here on his 2nd visit & refers to other letters in I & II Corinthians. There is very little left of the Temple of Aphrodite or the 6th century BC Temple of Apollo which dominated the life of the Corinthians in Paul’s time. Paul’s teaching on the Body of Christ (Corinthians 12:12-31) was perhaps inspired by Asclepius’ Temple of healing in Corinth, where casts of healed body parts honor the god. We return to Athens, seeing more of this amazing city as time permits before returning to our hotel for dinner and overnight.

We will take time for breakfast and then visit Mars Hill and the Acropolis with magnificent monuments such as the Parthenon, the Temple of Athena Nike, the Erechtheion, the Propylaea, the Ancient Agora, the theatre of Dionysus and the Odeon of Herodes Atticus (Acts 17:16-34). We will have the chance to walk around the Parthenon Monument, which was built during the 5th century BC by the architects Ictinus and Kallikrates. Free time in the district area of Plaka. Dinner and overnight in Athens.

We will have breakfast and then depart for Athens Airport where you will say your heartfelt farewells to a journey that will last in your memory forever.

*206 Tours Disclaimer:
Occasionally local religious and national holidays, weather, traffic conditions and other events may necessitate changes in the sequence of events or the missing of certain events/places. Though every effort will be made to follow the itinerary, it should be considered as an indication, rather than a contract of events and places to be visited.