Visitor numbers on Greece's Mount Athos hit new records in 2025, raising concerns over overcrowding and loss of spiritual ...

KARYES, Greece – Russian President Vladimir Putin has arrived at the northern Greek peninsula of Mount Athos, on a visit to the autonomous Orthodox Christian monastic community here. Putin flew from ...

ATHENS, May 28. /TASS/. Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday, the second day of his visit to Greece, will visit Mount Athos to attend ceremonies marking 1000 years of Russian monasticism there ...

Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias interrupted a visit to Mount Athos after fainting and is returning to Athens, RIA Novosti reported, citing the Greek public television ERT. Dendias arrived at ...

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Christian Orthodox believers know Greece’s heavily-forested northern peninsula of Mount Athos as the “Orchard of the Virgin Mary,” but women have been strictly barred from ...

Mr Putin (centre) met the Greek President Prokopis Pavlopouos (in striped tie) during his trip to Mount Athos Russian President Vladimir Putin has visited the monasteries at Mount Athos, in northern ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin is visiting Mount Athos in Greece to mark the 1,000-year presence of Russian Orthodox monks there. The Mount - actually a 335 sq km (130 sq mile) peninsula - may be ...