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

In a monastery on Greece's Mount Athos, Father Makarios is reading the gospel as he waits for his vaccination. A drive is on to vaccinate some 1,600 monks in this closed community in northern Greece, ...

MOUNT ATHOS, Greece (AP) — Mount Athos, a verdant peninsula in northern Greece, has been a center of Christian Orthodox monasticism for more than 1,000 years. The all-male autonomous community, known ...

2006-10-08 04:00:00 PDT Mount Athos, Greece-- Welcome to the Monastic Republic of Holy Mount Athos. Please set your calendar back a thousand years. Clocks here run on Byzantine time, which starts at ...

On this Easter Sunday, we're going to take you to a place outside our world. It's not Mars or Venus but it might as well be. It's a remote peninsula in northern Greece that millions believe to be the ...

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 ...

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, 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 ...

This story appears in the December 2009 issue of National Geographic magazine. The holy peninsula of Mount Athos reaches 31 miles out into the Aegean Sea like an appendage struggling to dislocate ...

An exhibition of very rare tenth-eighteenth century notated manuscripts from Holy Mount Athos opened on October 11 at the National Library of Russia in St. Petersburg, reports the Afonit.info website.

Bob Simon gets rare access to Mount Athos, a remote peninsula in northern Greece that is the spiritual capital of Orthodox Christianity. For more than a thousand years, monks on Mount Athos have lived ...