Mount Athos is a craggy peak 2000m high, overlooking a peninsula 50km long and about 10km wide. Although it’s a promontory, not an island, there’s no land access from the mainland. The only ...

The Mount Athos is known to the inhabitants as the Garden of the Mother of God. According to the tradition of the Holy Mountain, Mary the Mother of Jesus set foot on the island by providential chance.

The holy peninsula of Mount Athos reaches 31 miles out into the Aegean ... whose own walk began in Long Island as a teenage devotee of edgy musical artists like Lou Reed and Leonard Cohen, and ...

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 ...