Following the angry reception that greeted him when he preached to the Jews of Thessaloniki, around teh year 50, the Apostle Paul was spirited out of town by fellow believers in Jesus’ reincarnation.They brought him to Berea, some 60 km to the west. There too, Paul spoke in a synagogue, but in Berea the Jews “were more noble than those in Thessaloniki, for they received the word ...

Jews settled in Pergola in the thirteenth century. The building which housed the synagogue can still be seen on Via Don Minzoni, 9. A Jewish cemetery was identified on the road to Mezzanotte, an excavation operation is ongoing.