Mount Athos, referred to in Greek as the "Holy Mountain", is one of the most important centers of the Christian Orthodox ...

PM Mitsotakis of Greece visited the monastic state of Mount Athos today, describing it as "an enlightened center of spiritual ...

Relax and unwind on this underrated and uncrowded Greek beach, whose beautiful peninsula environment promises turquoise ...

Hollywood icon Mel Gibson is reportedly in Greece for a spiritual retreat before filming begins for "The Resurrection of ...

The American actor is the latest famous pilgrim on Athos, where he walks around the monasteries, prays, talks to the monks ...

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 in Greek as Agion Oros, … ...

MOUNT ATHOS, Greece — 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 ...

MOUNT ATHOS, Greece (AP) — . The peninsula in northern Greece is no stranger to non-Greeks: of the 20 monasteries, one is Russian, one is Bulgarian and one is Serbian, and the presence of monks ...

On Greece's Mount Athos, a cliffside monastery transcends country-based branches of Orthodoxy Clinging almost impossibly to a sheer cliff in northern Greece, the Monastery of Simonos Petra, also ...

Simonopetra, or the Simonos Petra Monastery, home of the all-male autonomous community Agion Oros, or Holy Mountain, stands on the peninsula of Mount Athos in northern Greece, Sunday, April 13, 2025.

MOUNT ATHOS, Greece (AP) — The all-male autonomous community, known in Greek as Agion Oros, or Holy Mountain, is no stranger to non-Greeks.

Simonopetra, or the Simonos Petra Monastery, home of the all-male autonomous community Agion Oros, or Holy Mountain, stands on the peninsula of Mount Athos in northern Greece, Sunday, April 13, 2025.