Antakya : Antioch
•Cave church of St. Peter : the world’s first official church
•Center of Christianity, visited by saints Paul, Barnavas, Peter
•Museum: one of the richest collections of Roman mosaics in the world
•Antioch: where the followers of Jesus were called Christians for the first time.
•Saint Lukas from Antioch
•Saint Simon monastery
•Church of saint Peter with its network of refuges and tunnels carved out of the rock, a site of pilgrimage. There are also tombs cut into the rock along the Orontes valley
•Antioch Archeological museum : mosaics from the 2nd – 5th cent. AD
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