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Philippi Festival in Kavala/Philippi
Greece's second-oldest continuously running arts festival, founded in 1961 following a landmark 1957 revival performance, staged each summer inside the ancient theatre of Philippi, built in the mid-fourth century BC under Philip II of Macedon and one of the earliest stone theatre structures in Greece, near modern Kavala.
Founded in 360 BC by colonists from Thasos as Krinides, the city later renamed Philippi after Philip II of Macedon conquered it in 356 BC and completed its fortifications, and the theatre built in the mid-fourth century BC there is considered one of the earliest stone theatre structures anywhere in Greece.