By recruiting and gathering young scientists and empowering the local communities, we are studying, planning and developing, in a holistic approach, the region around the Valley of Philippi, using the brand name Philippi Park. The inter-regional development plan of “PHILIPPI PARK” is about the consolidation and promotion of the Marshlands and near the Marshlands area under a common identity (brand), the development of common strategies, actions and investments, so as to achieve the conversion of this agricultural environment of great historical and national importance to a destination of global fame. What is “PHILIPPI PARK”? “PHILIPPI PARK” is the native receptor of 8.000 years of history of the people of Marshlands and near the Marshlands area. Between the mountains of Paggaio, Falakro, Menoikio and Simvolo, where the lake Prasiada used to be, today exists the one of a kind fertile Valley of Philippi, which has been hosting people and their history for centuries, making this place so special. This place of unique natural beauty is associated with the Orphic and Dionysian cult, the abduction of Persephone by Hades, Nysion field of Elefsina and finally with the most profound mystic insights that are still guiding the human soul. It has become the cradle of prehistoric people and hosted the Thracian tribes and the wealth of auriferous PAGGAIO. It has seen battles at Roman times with Cassious and Brutus, battles that reflected in Shakespeare and later marked the passage to the new religion of Christianity with the baptism of Lydia by Saint Paul. In this place everyday people are sweating until today, cultivating crops endlessly. A mythical, mystical and fertile place both for spiritual and physical human existence that worth to be marked variously and established in human memory as A World Heritage landmark.
