376 – Flying over the peninsula

Images taken from an airplane.

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Pantokrator(os)
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The ruins of the Athos university near Vatopedi or Vatopaidiou. Also here.
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Simonos Petras
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Panteleimonos: once a “city” of 5.000 monks (now appr. 50 ?). I just read the book The Russians on Athos by Nicholas Fennell. Very interesting story about a short moment in history that the Russians outnumbered the Greek monks on Athos
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The ruins of Ag. Vasiliou near the arsanas of Chilandariou.
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Iviron
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