These are open-air excavations and Orthodox or civic monuments, not Catholic shrines, so the prayer has to be brought to them. Scripture gives the city and the event; the particular spots are identifications of varying strength. Lydia's baptistery by the stream near Philippi and the reservoir shown as Paul's prison are traditional. The monuments at Kavala and Veria are modern memorials: Beroea, or Berea, is today's Veria, west of Thessaloniki, where almost nothing of the ancient city survives and a mosaic monument keeps steps that local tradition identifies as the place of Paul's preaching. The bema at Corinth is, in the excavators' words, "thought to have corresponded" to the tribunal of Acts 18. Paul wrote to three of these communities: the Philippians, the Thessalonians and the Corinthians.

Many programmes add Meteora, Delphi or the islands. None is a Pauline site: Meteora is a group of Greek Orthodox monasteries founded many centuries after Paul, and Delphi matters to his story only because the inscription that dates Gallio was found there. Summer heat at the sites is considerable.