Greek Reporter. Mount Athos remains a destination where spirituality predominates, attracting visitors driven by faith rather ...

The skulls, lined up five deep on wooden shelves, date back hundreds of years, with the names of the more recently deceased scratched onto their foreheads — Monk Theolothelis, 91, 26-6-1986, or Monk ...

It was while visiting Mount Athos, more than a quarter of a century ago, that I first heard the Soviet Union would collapse—and would do so in my lifetime. There, in northeastern Greece one ...

We are two brothers from Melbourne, Greeks of this generation, one eighteen and one seventeen, visiting Mount Athos for the ...

Monks are preparing for a major raid on Mount Athos, the Greek mountain considered a sacred site for Eastern Orthodox Christians, after Greek police sent a letter on July 16 asking for increased ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... MOUNT ATHOS, Greece — Brother Job twists and jiggles the big brass key and eases open the charnel house door. My eyes struggle in the dimness, and I blink in ...

DAVID CARABOTT who enjoys travelling discovers the peace and tranquility preserved in Mount Athos and it’s all male community My pilgrimage to the Orthodox theocracy of Mount Athos (the Holy Mountain) ...

Atlas Obscura on Slate is a new travel blog. Like us on Facebook, Tumblr, or follow us on Twitter @atlasobscura. On a mist-shrouded peninsula east of Thessaloniki is a place where time has stalled and ...

On a small, rocky peninsula jutting out into the Aegean Sea is Mount Athos, home to 20 of the world's most ancient and remote monasteries. Today, the mountain is an "Autonomous Monastic State" of ...

A Protestant’s journey among the monks of Mount Athos. When you first arrive at a monastery on Mount Athos, the traditional center of Eastern Orthodox spirituality, the first thing you do is knock ...