Saint George is a well-known place of pilgrimage at Cape Drepanon in village Pegeia of Paphos in the west province of Cyprus. It constitutes a counterpart to the shrine of St Andrew the Apostole at the east end of the island. Between 1952 and 1955, the Cypriot Department of Antiquities excavated three Early Christian basilicas and a bath on the cape (dating from the 6th century). The excavations were continued by the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in 1992-8 and were taken over by the Hellenic Ministry of Culture's Archaeological Expedition in Cyprus in 1999. This showed that an extensive unwalled settlement occupied the neck and the south slope of the cape in the Roman and Early Christian Periods. The settlement flourished under Justian I (527-565).
Being situated at the very western part of the island and at the mid-point of the sea route between Alexandria and Rhodes, the settlement was probably a port of call for the ships that transported grain from Egypt to Constantinople.