2262 – a drone footage of three towers of Mount Athos
Video made by Monk T on 5th of March/May 2021 This footage is made by monk T and shows three towers of the Holy Mountain: the first one is Palaiopyrgos, the ruins of an old tower between the arsanas...
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2263 – FoMA footpath team 2022 – part 2: the path from Vatopedi towards...
a part of the route:: the paths we cleared on 26th of September On Monday, September 26, 2022, our team started our first mission, clearing the path between Vatopedi and Esfigmenou. After waking up at...
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2264 – a drone footage of skiti Panteleimonos and the cell of Ag. Paisios
The cell of Ag. Paisios next to the valley of Koutloumousiou 02-08-2020 – photo by monk T. This latest footage of monk T., already made in 2020, shows us unique images of rarely visited skiti of Ag....
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2265 – a drone footage of a Pristine Territory of the Holy Mountain: the Réma...
Drone flight along the waterfall of Dontas stream, near the Dontas winery of Simonospetras / 18-12-2020 by monk T The Holy Mountain was founded in 963 with the construction of the Great Lavra...
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2266 – more Athos maps
A map from 1585 Abraham Ortelius, a Brabantian cartographer from Antwerp, with antique Greek names of villages on Athos 1650 Alexander à Via Venice engraving folding map Athos, with texts in Greek,...
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In this post we proudly present yet another unique footage, shot by monk T on May 5th 2021 during the Corona pandemic, when no one was allowed to enter the Holy Mountain. This video shows you the...
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2268 – FoMA footpath team 2022 – part 3.01: the Ridge path above Vatopedi to...
At 6 o’clock we woke up for our next day of cleaning the Mount Athos footpaths: breakfast was served at 6.30, with delicious calamaris, potatoes. olives and a glass of rosé wine. Our crew at the...
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2269 – FoMA footpath team 2022 – part 3.02: the Ridge path above Vatopedi to...
In the second part of our clearing day on September 28th 2022 we made a classical mistake that often happens when hiking on Athos, by paying no attention while walking on a dirt road and missing a...
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2270 – a new discovery near Vatopedi monastery: an aqueduct!
In the morning of September 30th 2022 our FoMA footpath clearance team made an extraordinary discovery in the woods behind Vatopedi monastery. We followed the gravel road inland and first passed an...
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2271 – after 400 years: a (second) new building in Karyes
The latest image of the new Samaradiko from Voria.gr The Greek website Voria.gr tells us that this new building in Karyes is the second(!) modern building in 400 years, called Samaradiko and that...
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2272 – forest fire extinguished near Lavra July 8th 2023
Last Saturday, July 8, 2023 at 7:00 a.m a forest fire broke out in the area of Gourounodes, 5 kilometers northwest of Megisti Lavra (near Lakkou Skiti?) without, however, threatening any monastery. A...
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2273 – Vatopedi: a walk around the monastery
During my week-long stay at Vatopedi Monastery with the FoMA footpath clearing team last year, I had time to walk around the monastery and take photos of the outer walls and towers (on September 28...
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2274 – the graveyard and ossuary of Vatopedi
In the red circle the graveyard and ossuary of Vatopedi is situated. from Google Earth The wall that surrounds the graveyard with an impressive and very old olive tree in front of it. Behind the wall...
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2275 – photo’s and etchings of 19 monasteries from 1904
On this commercial Russian website (sviatogora.com) I found old images from (almost) all Athos monasteries. There is also a translation in English. They claim that the old photo’s amd etchings of the...
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2276 – the arsanas of Vatopedi
Vatopedi harbor/arsanas from a Cessna airplane 2017 – photo Wim Voogd After one of our working days with the FoMA footpath team, when we had been clearing paths in the hills above Vatopedi, we arrived...
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2277 – forest fire at Stavrós junction near Kerasia
Yesterday evening a fire broke out at a very remote point on Athos, near the junction called Stavrós, where the monopati from skiti Agia Anna and Lavra splits on goes up to the top of Mount Athos. The...
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2278 – a first glimpse at the new hotel-restaurant in Karyes
If you follow the Facebook site of monk Prodromos Grigoriatis – as our regular guest and friend Japetus does – you could have seen his video from yesterday. In this video he shows us a first glimpse...
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2279 – a hidden gem: the Treasury of Vatopedi
Not many pilgrims know this, but in an inconspicuous building next to the Trapeza of Vatopedi is one of the most interesting places of Athos, the Treasury of Vatopedi, with numerous artifacts of the...
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2280 – a new Georgian skiti on Athos
On August 28th 2023 a new skiti was opened on Athos. This is a special occasion, because the opening of a new habitation or skete does not happen regularly on The Holy Mountain. Although, in 2018 I...
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2281 – Athos pilgrimage 2023: members of the FoMA footpath clearing group
September 17th: 32 FoMA members on the ferry from Ouranopolis This year the Friends of Mount Athos (FoMA) organized a footpath clearing mission on the Holy Mountain. From Sunday 17th to Saturday the...
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