Kavala Thermal Baths

Kavala Thermal Baths are geothermal springs in Kavala, the principal port city of eastern Macedonia in northern Greece, situated on a dramatic amphitheater of hillsides above the Thracian Sea where oligomineral thermal waters from the metamorphic basement of the Rhodope massif — one of Europe's oldest mountain ranges — provide therapeutic bathing in a city of extraordinary historical depth. Ancient Kavala, known as Neapolis in antiquity, was the port where the Apostle Paul first set foot on European soil in 49 CE, beginning the evangelization of Europe from this Macedonian harbor — a moment commemorated by a monument on the waterfront. The Byzantine aqueduct that still dominates the city's old harbor skyline, the 16th-century Ottoman imaret of Ibrahim Pasha, and the birthplace of Muhammad Ali — the Albanian-born Ottoman general who became Viceroy of Egypt and founder of modern Egypt's ruling dynasty — give Kavala's thermal tradition an extraordinary historical backdrop.