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1925 – 3 monasteries by Edward Lear

Posted on June 21, 2017 by athosweblog

On the 5th of July 2017 Christies will auction 3 drawings by Edward Lear. We have made already a lot of Lear posts on this blog but here are three unpublished images. A very nice impression of the monastery of … Continue reading →

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1910 – Koutloumousiou monastery: part 3

Posted on May 4, 2017 by athosweblog

Let’s continue our exploration of the courtyard:The balconies in the North-East corner: the kitchen and the bakery (Γ 1 and Γ 3), with a large clock on the wall. Here are pilgrim Gert Jan and me standing in front of the … Continue reading →

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1909 – Koutloumousiou monastery: part 2

Posted on May 3, 2017 by athosweblog

Let’s continue my photo essay about Koutloumousiou, which I started in post 1903. Today we will walk around the outer walls and we will have a look inside the courtyard. Here is plan of the monasery (made in 2000) and … Continue reading →

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1904 – ΧΡΙΣΤΟΣ ΑΝΕΣΤΗ / Christos Anesti!

Posted on April 16, 2017 by athosweblog

Easter liturgy in the Protaton in 1958, photographed by Chrysostomus Dahm, who published them in 1959 in his book Athos, Berg der Verklärung.Gouverneur Konstantopoulos and Protos Nathanael in the ProtatonThe ending of the Easter ceremonies: a meeting in the Iera Kinotis … Continue reading →

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1903 – Koutloumousiou monastery -1

Posted on April 14, 2017 by athosweblog

September 23th 2015 we paid a visit to this monastery. In this photo essay I will show you the pictures I took. Here is a plan of monastery and its surroundings:and on the next satelite picture you see the spots where … Continue reading →

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1890 – Kaliagra (arsanas Koutloumousiou)

Posted on February 6, 2017 by athosweblog

Kaliagra was the principal point of entry to Athos up to the middle of the 20th century. It’s decline started when people started using the Ouranoupolis-Dafni route to visit Athos. The pictures show you how the decline looks like. This … Continue reading →

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1784 – Twenty monasteries in seven days : day 4, a day full of adventures

Posted on January 31, 2016 by athosweblog

This is the fourth episode of seven of the  Athos trip done by Goulven Le Goff and his brother Ivonig from Rennes, France made in May 2015. They visited all 20 monasteries in one week.   This day was the most … Continue reading →

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1276 – the path from Koutloumousiou to Iviron

Posted on March 6, 2012 by athosweblog

After our short visit to Koutloumousiou we started walking to Iviron. With the help of a GPS-App I could trace the route that we walked and show it here on Google maps. The distance was 4,86 kilometers and it took … Continue reading →

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1275 – Koutloumousiou: fresco’s from the Exonarthex

Posted on February 25, 2012 by athosweblog

Unfortunately I did not have enough time to shoot some good pictures in the exonarthex of Koutloumousiou on October 3th 2011. Here are some of them, starting with two still shots from a video my friend Jitze took: Shooting pictures … Continue reading →

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1274 – Koutloumousiou

Posted on February 15, 2012 by athosweblog

Koutloumousiou 1989 2011 Not a lot of pilgrims spend a night in Koutloumousiou. When we tried to get a place to sleep in 1986 we were told to book a room in the Karyes Hotel, only 15 minutes away. Most … Continue reading →

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