This mystical site, which sits along one of Europe's most beautiful stretches of coastline, is one of the continent's last ...

The monasteries are anything but monolithic ... share it with roughly the same number of monks. Mount Athos has been part of Greece since 1924. Its local governance resides in Karyes, the dusty ...

The Byzantine Empire is not always recognised as the crucial link that connected the classical world with modern Europe.

Mount Athos, Greece, where an Orthodox community of 20 monasteries is located, is one of the most revered places in Orthodox culture and also a UNESCO World Heritage Site. A special permit is ...

(There were a couple of other vast Russian houses on Athos, dedicated to Saint Andrew and the Prophet Elijah, but they were notionally subordinate to nearby Greek monasteries; this helped ensure ...

There, deep inside the medieval fortified monastery in the Mount Athos monastic Orthodox Christian community, researchers are for the first time tapping a virtually unknown treasure - thousands of ...

Athos monasteries. Taste different aspects of Greek culinary history at one of the onsite restaurants and get access to the famous Elia beach. Mount Athos is the third peninsula of Halkidiki ...

Itineraries calling at lesser-visited ports, offering off-the-beaten-track experiences, can help pique clients’ interest in cruising. We source six voyages of discovery ...