Mount Athos in Greece

                                    Mount Athos in Greece


The holy peninsula of Mount Athos reaches 31 miles out into the Aegean Sea like an appendage struggling to dislocate itself from the secular corpus of northeastern Greece.It is the oldest monastic community in the world.Mount Athos is 2039 meters high and 6670 feet of grey -white crystalline limestone.   

The monasteries of Athos display the typical layout of orthodox monastic establishments a square,rectangular in the place. The monastic ideal has at Mount Athos preserved acceptable animal habitations, which are adumbrative of the agrarian cultures of the Mediterranean world and accept become accessible through the appulse of change aural abreast society. Mount Athos is aswell a conservatory of colloquial architectonics and agronomical and ability traditions.

 Today Athos includes 20 monasteries, 12 skites, and about 700 houses, cells, or hermitages. Over 1,000 monks reside there in communities or alone, as able-bodied as in the 'desert' of Karoulia area beef adhere to the bluff face ascent steeply aloft the sea.

 The Mount Athos was accepted as a  World Heritage Site in  Jun 30, 1998  .really this is a beautiful place in the world.    
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