Mount Athos is a mountain and peninsula in Macedonia, Greece. A World Heritage Site and autonomous polity in the Hellenic Republic, Athos is home to 20 stavropegial Eastern Orthodox monasteries under the direct jurisdiction of the patriarch of Constantinople. Today Greeks commonly refer to Mount Athos as the “Holy Mountain”. In Classical times, while the mountain was called Athos, the peninsula was called Akte.
Athos includes 20 monasteries, 12 skites, and about 700 houses, cells, or hermitages. Over 1,000 monks live there in communities or alone, as well as in the ‘desert’ of Karoulia where cells cling to the cliff face rising steeply above the sea.
Dafni Port
Agiou Panteleimonos Monastery
Stavronikita Monastery
Zographou Monastery
Esphigmenou Monastery
Simonopetra Monastery
Esphigmenou Monastery
Interesting! recently there was an article in the Economist about the politics between these Monasteries..Thank you!
Great post, really enjoyed it.
Beautiful. Greece is on my to do list of places to visit. Must go see these when I do
These are beautiful landscape picture of Athos and the monasteries ….i hope someday to travel to Greece and visit these wonderful places…
Love the pictures and the information you shared… Thanks!
The beauty of nature is the closest I feel to God.
Greece just moved from #5 on my list of places to visit to #3!
Beautiful pictures and kind of you to share them with us all…
What a gorgeous collection of pictures!
I’m jealous! Really craving for a vacation surrounded by nature, now!
Lovely article!
Great place. I do not know if it is possible for woman to visit it today. Back in 1960 not !
There is still a restriction on women visiting the Holy mountain. It is an “Avaton” (in greek “what may not be set foot upon”…
Thank you for answering.
You’re welcome
What fantastic old buildings!