Monastery in Greece
Famous for: Monastery
Seeking recoil from the mounting Turkish occupation, the Eastern Orthodox monks found an ideal haven here. Remote rock pillars dotted over this exclusively chiseled countryside alongside with ca...
Famous for: Monasteries
Mounting high from the easternmost "leg" of the Chalcidice isthmus and extensively well-known as "Holy Mountain", Mt. Athos is definitely not the ‘heart' of Macedon...
Famous for: Scenic Beauty
Expelled on Patmos by the Roman Emperor Domitian approximately in 95 AD, St. John the Theologian, generally recognized with the Apostle John, is said to have received his celestial visions...
