Mount Athos is home to twenty monasteries where only monks are allowed to live and only males are allowed to visit, women are banned.

The answer lies on Mount Athos, where Elder Ephraim is a monk. The King has visited Elder Ephraim’s monastery, Vatopedi, many times. Having visited Mount Athos myself, I can confirm that it is a ...

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 ...

A young transgender man is suing an Orthodox monk from Greece's monastic community of Mount Athos (Agion Oros).

Visit the homepage for more information. The monks’ republic situated on the peninsula of Mount Athos in the north-western region of Greece was founded in 963 and is home to twenty monasteries with ...

An earthquake measuring 4.7 on the Richter scale struck Mount Athos on Saturday afternoon (February 15) at 18:11, and was ...

TASS/. Mount Athos is to a great extent a source of moral foundations of the society, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Saturday on a visit to Mount Athos to mark the 1,000-year presence of ...

Away from the tourist hordes, I felt smug as I awoke each morning to views from my hotel balcony of clear blue sky, the sparkling sea and Mount Athos. The three-fingered peninsula that is ...