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2232 – Fire in the cell Agiou Vasiliou 30-01-2022
Fire in the cell of Ag. Vasiliou Yesterday I was informed on Facebook that on Sunday evening 30th January 2022 a fire broke out in this cell that belongs to the Serbian Chilandariou monastery. Today I...
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2233 – the Future of Athos? Avaton water: a company sells the water from a...
The founder of this new enterprise, that will be run in the near future is by a Macedonian bottle company from Thessaloniki, Dimitris Babakos from Cyprus, was during a stay at Simonospetras monastery...
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2234 – Xiropotamou monastery – part 1
In post 2204 I published the hike from Dafni to Xiropotamou. Today we take a look at the outside of the monastery and the surrounding area. Plan of the monastery made by Mylonas in 1980 Drone footage...
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2235 – In search of Virginia Somers’ lost letter
William Dalrymple is a famous writer who works and lives in India. One of his books, From the Holy Mountain, contains a chapter about the monastery of Iviron. In that chapter Dalrymple informs the...
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2236 – Athos monks pray for peace and the cessation of the war in Ukrain
According to this source – Orthodoxtimes.com – every day the monks of two Athos-monasteries “made prayers and supplications to the Theotokos for the protection of the oppressed and desperate brothers...
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2237 – file a complaint against the new large scale commercial company...
The Avaton water factory In post 2233 I informed our readers about the new -large scale- mineral water factory, that recently is build on the hills above Simonospetras by the Macedonian Bottling...
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2238 – Athos photo exhibition “Between Heaven and Earth” in Germany by...
Tomorrow, Thursday 14th of April at 19h AM an exhibition will open (for only four days) of pictures made by the German monk who lives and works in Simonospetras, Theodosios. The exhibition is in the...
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2239 – 2022/2023: large scale renovation activities on Athos
According this source Mount Athos will be transformed into a construction site the coming period. The renovations should be completed in December 2023. They have been planned in the Operational...
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2240 – Xiropotamou monastery and the question of the strange figure in de...
In post 2234 I showed pictures of the surrounding area of Xiropotamou and the graveyard/ossuary. In this post we wil take a closer look at the courtyard and its buildings. As said before, it is not...
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2237/2 – a reminder: file a complaint against the new large scale commercial...
VolodK added this new information to the previous post 2237 – thanks! the new factory “Searching here I found these are the correct information for the company. The rest of the VAT number is 192552 (I...
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2242 – the documentary “Adam where are you?” in August on display in the...
In post 2222 from October 2021 I published the news about a new Athos documentary, made by the Ukrainian director Alexander Zaporoshchenko and producer Alexander Pliska. At that time it was uncertain...
View Article2243 – News: update post 1835- 20-7-2022 : new regulations for making a...
A new update of post 1835 on 20-7-2022 : Thanks to the help of Japetus I can publish the new regulations for making a reservation, see post 1835. I will try to find out if the new rules also apply for...
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2244 – review of the film Adam, Where are you ?: a 4 star rating
Yesterday my Athos friends and I went to see the Athos film in Amsterdam/De Balie. The film was introduced by the producer father Alexander Plysko from Kiev. Father Alexander Plyska with the...
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Saturday moring, the 6th of August, a fire broke out in the olive orchard near Arsanas Konstamonitou / the cell of Agiou Pantes, where persumeably somebody wanted to burn some branches. The latest...
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2246 – Xiropotamou monastery: the phiale and the exo-narthex – part 3
I started my story of a visit to Xiropotamou in 2019 February this year, with an photo essay of the outside walls and drone footage (post 2234). In the next post – part 2 – I payed attention to the...
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2246 – more information about the documentary “Adam where are you?” and an...
On August 19th the Dutch magazine KATHOLIEK NIEUWSBLAD published this article “Getuigen van de stilte / Een intieme blik op een heilige berg” about the documentary “Adam where are you?”. You can buy...
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2247 – the Dafni building complex of Simonospetras – part 1
Dafni 4th of October 2019 It has been three years since we last visited the Holy Mountain. Due to the coronavirus, the lockdowns in the world and extra precautions that applied to Athos, no pilgrims...
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2248 – the Dafni building complex of Simonospetras – part 2
In part 1 of this post I showed you the exterior and interior of the Church of All Saints. In this post we wil take acloser look at some of the other buildings, starting with the building that is...
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2250 – arsanas Chomitsa and the border buildings
On a half hour walk from Ouranopolis you will find the border to the Holy Mountain. Behind the fence there is a cluster of five buildings: one for a policeman (on the right when standing at the gate),...
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2251 – Swiss photographer Fred Boissonnas in Vatopedi -1928/30
On my last journey to Athos in September/October 2022 I spend one day in Thessaloniki. Because we published the photos of the photographer Boissonnas earlier on this weblog (1485), I made a visit to...
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