On a half hour walk from Ouranopolis you will find the border to the Holy Mountain. Behind the fence there is a cluster of five buildings: one for a policeman (on the right when standing at the gate), a house for the employee of the Holy Mountain and three deserted buildings belonging to the arsanas of Chromitsa. Chromitsa lies higher uphill and it used to be the hospital of the Russian monastery Panteleimonos, nowadays it is vineyard of Tsantali, where the grapes of the house wine of the Kremlin grow (the ‘Putin’-wine that costs €150).



























Wim Voogd, 4/10
Just a question: Is this location the same as the one called Chromitsa?
Hello mr Koolschijn, there different views how to spell the name of this settlement: Sidney Loch used the name “ChRomitsa” in his book and we used this in our weblog. Recently I found out that the correct name must be “Chomitsa”, so without the “R”. I changed the spelling in our weblog last week. But you are right, it is the same place.
Kind regards,
Wim Voogd