Dion Archaeological Park: A Day Trip from Thessaloniki
Dion was the sacred city of the ancient Macedonians, the place where their kings worshipped Olympian Zeus at the foot of his mountain. It lies roughly eighty-five kilometres southwest of Thessaloniki, a walled town of temples, theatres, and paved streets set among the springs below Mount Olympus. Here the Macedonian rulers sacrificed before war, and … Read more