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1909 – Koutloumousiou monastery: part 2
Let’s continue my photo essay about Koutloumousiou, which I started in post 1903. Today we will walk around the outer walls and we will have a look inside the courtyard. Here is plan of the monasery...
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1910 – Koutloumousiou monastery: part 3
Let’s continue our exploration of the courtyard:The balconies in the North-East corner: the kitchen and the bakery (Γ 1 and Γ 3), with a large clock on the wall. Here are pilgrim Gert Jan and me...
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1911 – a Cessna flight above Athos
Yesterday we flew over the Holy Mountain: here are two pictures of Arapis cape and Esfigmenou. Wim Voogd, 7/5
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1912 – May 10th: sunset at Ag. Basilou
Yesterday in Chilandariou we went for a evening walk to Ag. Basiliou: an amazing place! And finally they removed the ugly and rusty scaffoldings at the South wall!Wim Voogd, 11/5
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1913 – Lavra now and around 1900
Megisti Lavra, May 2017 with on the left, behind the trees, the tower of the arsanas. We tried to locate the exact spot where the black and white image below was taken. This is the best we could do....
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1914 – The courtyard of Megisti Lavra now and 164 years ago
In 1853 a photographer climbed the wooden stairs of the monastery of Lavra with his heavy equipment to place his camera in front of this window overlooking the courtyard. The photographer made this...
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1915 – The chapel of Andreou
The history of the oldest chapel in the skiti of Andreou is written in post 1850. A short history in foto’s by Koolschijn (1970), Geldermans (1972), Wim Voogd (2015) en Herman Voogd (2017).Herman Voogd
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1916 – Wolves on the peninsula: proof
We walked from Esfigmenou to Karyes, Marouda over the ridge (The Way of the Bey). Mostly monopatia, only a short intermission with a dirt road. The dirtroad overrules the path just after Stavros, where...
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1917 – The sound of the tálanton at Esfigmenou
This is what we heard when entering the monastery of Esfigmenou after a long walk coming from the other coast, from Thibais. The beating on the wooden tálanton is a call for the monks to go to the...
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1918 – The arsanas of Lavra: Mandraki
This is how the harbour (arsanas) of Lavra looked in 1853. The oldest photograph that exists of this location. On our 2017 trip we found the old footpath from the monastery to the arsanas. A very...
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1919 – what is new on Athos in 2017?
As mentioned before in our blog, things change rapidly on the Holy mountain. Here are five examples of some of the changes that I noticed on my pilgrimage this year: 1. The totall make-over of Paleo...
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1920 – First day, entering the Holy Mountain by water taxi
Our 2017 pilgrimage started quite different from earlier trips to the Holy Mountain. We didn’t travel the usual way, by the ferry from Ouranopolis or from Ierissos. A water taxi was ready for us....
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1921 – Day one, part two: The building renaissance on Athos and the miracle...
We found the gate of Thibais closed. Pilgrim Herman started talking with a loud voice to draw someone’s attention. After quite a while we saw a black figure waving at us from a building up the hill. It...
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1922 – Kapsala: the ruined kellion of St. John Chrysostomos
On our first day of this years’ pilgrimage to Athos, Father Makarios of Maroudá granted us hospitality in his beautifull cell. Before we went on our journey I made contact with a reader of our weblog...
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1923 – Friends of Mount Athos (FoMA) clearing the footpaths
The Friends of Mount Athos are committed to the ongoing project of clearing, restoring and maintaining the old Athonite footpaths, many of them stone-paved (kaldirimi) tracks for transporting goods by...
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1924 – Mikra Skiti Anna by Regos
Little Agia Anna seen from the shore by Polykleitos Regos painted in 1983.This picture is taken on the footpath coming from Katounakia in 2017. The path leads to the house with the cypresses then...
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1925 – 3 monasteries by Edward Lear
On the 5th of July 2017 Christies will auction 3 drawings by Edward Lear. We have made already a lot of Lear posts on this blog but here are three unpublished images. A very nice impression of the...
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1926 – Meeting Dragan Jemuovic
When we were relaxing in the kiosk outside the maingate of Lavra May 2017 a man came up to me and introduced himself as Dragan who said he knew me. It took me a moment to understand because I had never...
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1927 – The holy smoke from Thibais, first day, part three.
Pilgrim Jacques is given an explanation in the frankincense factory by Boris. They export from Thibais to the Holy Mountain and to every corner in the world. The burning of incense is a human custom...
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1928 – Thebais: contact with fellow pilgrims on the boat
After we spent some time at Thibais our friendly host, Boris, showed us the way uphill to the road to Proto Nero and Chilandariou. Suddenly we saw the boat coming from Ouranoupolis. We knew that my...
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