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The Holy Mountain by Herman Voogd. Books, art, travel, culture, religion, orthodoxy, architecture,monasteries, byzantine,nature, hikes and path clearing.
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Today it is a feast on Mt. Athos because Maria (Panagia) was born. It the 8th of september on the mountain. We got swordfish and red wine for breakfast.
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20 years ago: King Charles (then Prince of Wales) clearing the Athos footpaths together with the Friends of Mount Athos in 2004
#FoMA
photographer unknown
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Stavronikita, the smallest monastery on the peninsula is dedicated to saint Nicolas
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Icon of St. Demetrios, owned by Vatopedi, one of the highlights of the 1979 exhibition Treasures of Mount Athos in Thessaloniki
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A nice book about Athos in English is this one by Sydney Loch. He lived in The Ouranoupolis tower and walks in the first chapter to the border, Chromitsa and ends his walk in Chilandariou.
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Icons from Dionysiou. These ones are stored in the museum of the monastery.
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Serbian monastery Chilandariou in 1918 by French photographer F. Cuville more rare color autochromes here
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Happy Easter: Monasteries and Saints from Mt. Athos (collection Sk. Prodromou)
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The refectory (trapeza) of Dionysiou is were the monks and pilgrims eat.
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Monk sitting on his balcony from his hermitage in Karoulia, wooden ladders, on the right, are the only acces to his cell.
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In the Russian monastery Pantaleimonos are living Ukrainian and Russian monks together. I hope in peace.
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The monastery of Pantokratoros with the kiosk and main entrance on the left.
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The monasteries of Gregoriou and SimonasPetras ( on the left) as seen from the boat back to Ouranoupolis
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Arriving at the monastery we passed the donkey that walks freely on the monopatia around Dionysiou
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Byzantine bridge in the forest between Provata and Karakallou.
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Eating delicious spinakopita (spinach and feta in puff pastry) outside the bakery in Karyes
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Stravonikita with the aqueduct and the reflection in the waterbassin.
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Bread in the bakery of Karyes. Also the best place for spinakopita.
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a monk is painting the fences in the arches of Koutloumousiou, a monastery situated in the "capital" of the peninsula, Karyes.
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Today we walked from Karakallou via Filotheou ( with grass courtyard) to Mylopotamos then to Iviron, with the monastery of Stavronikita as final destination. A total of 12 km.
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It is 300 meter climb from the arsanas to the monastery of Simonas Petras photo by B. Oreck
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The monastery of Iviron on the coast seen from Skiti Iviron photo by W. Voogd
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The tower of Ouranoupolis where the ferries leave for Athos and where author Sydney Loch used to live
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Monk in Dionysiou walking to church ( Katholikon) coming from guesthouse ( Archondariki)
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Breakfast tables in the trapezas of Filotheou and Iviron by W. Voogd
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Skiti Andreou, once Russian now Greek, seen from Marouda has the largest church of the peninsula
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A doubled-sided icon from Dionysiou (ca. 1375)on the damaged side we see 4 saints from Trebizond and the other side, the founder of the monastery emperor Alexios III Comnenos and St. John the Baptist
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a vintage colorized photo of Dionysiou without the modern harbour.
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The Dionysiou Foma team arriving at the monastery, 2 Belgiums, 1 American, 1 Englishman and 1 Dutchman. Tomorrow cleaning the path to Gregoriou.
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Megisti Lavra, nr 1 in the ranking of monasteries seen from and to the hill. In the middle of the courtyard, next to the church, the very big, old cypress
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The oldest pictures of Athos: Simonos Petras
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Beans (from Romania) in the trapeza (dining hall) of Karakallou.
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The entrance of Dionysiou monastery, the wall of the guest quarters and on the left the shop
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One of the cells in the Romanian skiti Lakkou and its garden.
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The ruins of Vasiliou monastery near the arsanas of Chilandariou are partly restored and some monks live there
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Here I am, high up Dionysiou, trying to to find the path that goes over the mountain ridge in the direction of Sk. Lakkou together with Bart Janssen who took the photo. We did not find it.
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On the path to Gregoriou with the Mountain, Dionysiou monastery and the arsanas (harbour)
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A fish at a feast day and pasta without oil at lent, more food and wine
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On this location near Iviron, it is said that, Maria (Panagia) came to land on Athos, calling it The Garden of the Mother of God afterwards. Kaliagra and Stavronikita in the distance.
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Icons, a manuscript and the 18th century Barsky image of the monastery in the museum of Dionysiou
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Skiti Anna can be the starting point for a hike up the Mountain that will take approximately 6 hours.
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Vatopedi monastery has its own fish farms probably for breed fishes like dorade or sea bass
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The beginning of the footpath to Paulou Monastery starting from Dionysiou.
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Incoming waves in front of the monastery of Stavronikita with Pantokratoros in the distance
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the arsanas of Karakalou with the monastery in the background
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Mount Athos this morning, photo by Jitze Bakker at Simonas Petras
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The aqueduct of Stravonikita and the Saint of the monastery: Nicolas
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The dishes in the kitchen of Dionysiou. Beans and pomegrenade juice instead of wine during lent.
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The cave (with a small chapel) and the cell of the saint Nelios with the Holy Mountain in the background.
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On our clearing (of the paths)trip to the cel of Onofriou we walked this beautiful path. In the background the harbour of Paulou monastery
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The monks of Dionysiou asked us to bring this box with, I assume, letters to the harbour below and place it on the peer so that the ferry can take it to the normal world.
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The maingate of Dionysiou monastery from the inside. Outside the blue walls of the monastery shop.
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Father of Dionysiou pointing to the cell 300 m directly above the monastery
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Dionysiou 2023 FoMA team members are clearing paths (monopatia) with The Mountain cloudless in the background
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Now with my brother Wim in Ouranoupolis. Tomorrow pathclearing on Mt Athos with the Friends of Mount Athos
#foma
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The sun over the Holy Mountain. No longer clearing the paths in the shade. It was hot while working the path between Dionysiou and Gregoriou.
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The ferry is heading for Xenophontos, leaving Dochiariou monastery ( with a permanent crane) behind.
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Dionysiou, the part of the building on the left is the guesthouse with the balcony for the smokers.
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January 2015: the entrance of Paulou monastery, the snow is starting to melt again
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The Athos centre on the Egnatia street in Thessaloniki. Nice books and interesting exhibitions
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Saints (Onofriou with the long beard) and angels in the refectory of Dionysiou.
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Kaliagra, the harbour (arsanas) of Kutlumusiou monastery and and almost waveless sea
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In early 2015 my son and I walked to Paulou and Nea Skiti after a snowstorm. Step by step and very slow, it was an unforgetable experience
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The arsanas of Megisti Lavra then and now. When you walk from the monastery to this harbour take the old monopati not the dirtroad
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A very nice drone film of the top of Mount Athos
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1997 Father Kyrillos from Chilandariou, the overseer of the kitchen garden, with the librarian of Chilandariou photo by Wim Voogd
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Towers of Iviron monastery, watch the dog next to the viale. Dogs are allowed in Iviron 🙂🐕
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Very hospitable reception by the monks of this cell the Romanian Skiti of Lakkou. A nice conversation in German with cookies and Tsipourou.
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In the guestrooms of Stavronikita is no electricity but an oil lamp will do
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