Palace of Aigai reopens

January 8, 2024

An ancient palace, Palace of Aigai, where Alexander The Great was crowned King of Macedonia in 336 BC reopened to the public recently after a 16-year, 20 million euro renovation aiming to restore its past glory.
The 4^th century BC site near Greece’s northern port city of Thessaloniki, was built more than 2,300 years ago.
It spreads over 15,000 square meters was one of the most important in classical Greece alongside the Parthenon in Athens.
Aigai was capital of the Macedonian kingdom, the dominant military power of the time, and archeologists say the palace was the kingdom’s spiritual centre.
Built by Philip II, the father of Alexander the Great, the tombs of Philip and other Macedonian kings are nearby.
It was later destroyed by the Romans and unearthed through excavations beginning in the 19th Century.