Category Archives: 06 Koutloumousiou

1890 – Kaliagra (arsanas Koutloumousiou)

Posted on February 6, 2017 by

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

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

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

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

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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1235 – the Koutloumousiou Garden Project

Posted on July 6, 2011 by

This week the Amsterdam Academy of Architecture (Academie van Bouwkunst) launched a project of four students, who’s assignment was to design a botanical garden for the Holy Monastery Kotloumousiou on Mount Athos. In the spring of 2011 a group landscape architecture students … Continue reading →

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1212 – the bay of Kaliagra (day 3 – 30)

Posted on April 6, 2011 by

A kellion above the Kaliagra beach, Agios Nikolaos Nerantzona. It looks like the house is still inhabited, because the roof and windows are intact. What is different from other settlements is the huge tower-like building that is attached to the … Continue reading →

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