Large stairs lead upwards to the exit to the gardens.
A marble sink, somewhere close to the large stairs.
A fresco near the balcony
Left from the painting above you will find a slightly damaged fresco of Ag. Simon, holding a staff and a document, lit by a star (?).
A new fresco of the founder and financier of the monastery (1368), the serbian Despot Joannis (Jovan) Uglitsch (Uglescha).
The entrance to the trapeza, build on May 20th 1863: the monastery was destroyed by fire several times.
Inside the trapeza
Simonspetras – a corner of the monastery with wooden constructions
A wooden semantron
It was late in the morning and we had to follow our schedule, in order to arrive in Pantocratoros later that day. When leaving Simonospetras we were lucky to meet a salesman, who just delivered his goods to the monastery and who was about to drive back to Dafni in his fourwheel-drive car. We asked to get a lift and he was generously willing to take us to Dafni, without asking money, over one of the most boring roads in whole Athos: it took us 15 minutes instead of 1,5 hours walking!
Dafni – two cats and two pilgrims, with the small boat Agia Anna and the monastery Xiropotamou in the background.
Dafni – two hungry and thirsty pilgrims (and a cat?) having lunch.
Dafni – just before the boat from Ouranopolis arrives, everything is quiet in the port of Dafni
Xirapotamou – 29/9/2009
We took a taxi to Karyes. Maybe this a good moment embed this film I took once more: at this point we are at 4:08 minutes.
Wim, 11/3/11
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