Once again I am in the privileged position to show unique images of Athos. This time my much appreciated friend Monk T made drone images of the well-known monastery Vatopedi, where I stayed for a week with my friends from the FoMA in September 2022. But this in not all, because Monk T also made very unique aerial shots of the Kolitsou tower, never shown before on the internet. In post 1996 of this weblog I showed you the pictures of my visit to this tower in 2018.
5-10-2022: an aerial view of the East coast of Mount Athos, seen from the tower of Kolitsou (below) and with Vatopedi monastery in the background (drone photo by Monk T)A detail of the coastline from the map of Peter Howorth 5-10-2022: Vatopedi monastery (drone photo by Monk T)5-10-2022: Vatopedi monastery (drone photo by Monk T)5-10-2022: the Kolitsou tower and the Eastern coastline of Athos, with the Holy Mountain (drone photo by Monk T)5-10-2022: the Kolitsou tower (drone photo by Monk T)5-10-2022: two pictures of the interior the Kolitsou tower, seen from above (drone photo by Monk T)5-10-2022: a glimpse through what used to be a window of the Kolitsou tower (drone photo by Monk T)5-10-2022: the surroundings of the area, with the Kolitsou tower, left above it the Rumenian Kolitsou settlement and on the right, along the road, the new Georgian kellion (drone photo by Monk T)
Thanks again to Monk T for being so helpful, so we can post this unique material (and I have more (drone) content from him, so you can expect more videos in the near future!)
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Beautiful images, mister Voogd! I’m grateful.
Very good and nice post! Here you may see a list of all the towers on Holy Mount Athos: https://www.kastra.eu/castleen.php?kastro=kolitsou