Category Archives: 13 Simonos Petras

2265 – a drone footage of a Pristine Territory of the Holy Mountain: the Réma Dontá cataracts

Posted on April 17, 2023 by athosweblog

The Holy Mountain was founded in 963 with the construction of the Great Lavra Monastery by Saint Athanasios. Soon after, the rules of the Avaton were imposed: women were not allowed to enter this part of the world. After this, … Continue reading →

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2259 – the Abbots of all Athos monasteries

Posted on February 20, 2023 by athosweblog

Our dear Athos friend Vasílis de Grote publishes very interesting information about Athos on Facebook. With his permission I have reproduced this list of abbots, hegoúmenos in Greek, which he published on 12 February. The reason for starting this list … Continue reading →

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2252 – a You Tube footage of a hike between Simonos Petras and Grigoriou

Posted on November 7, 2022 by athosweblog

Rafinos from Greece published this beautifil 8-minute video from his hike on July 5th 2022(?) between Simonos Petras and Grigoriou, in black and white and color, and with appropriate music in the background. Some of the shots were made by … Continue reading →

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2249 – the Dafni building complex of Simonospetras – part 2

Posted on September 20, 2022 by athosweblog

In part 1 of this post (2248) I showed you the exterior and interior of the Church of All Saints. In this post we wil take a closer look at some of the other buildings, starting with the building that … Continue reading →

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2248 – the Dafni building complex of Simonospetras – part 1

Posted on September 12, 2022 by athosweblog

It has been three years since we last visited the Holy Mountain. Due to the coronavirus, the lockdowns in the world and extra precautions that applied to Athos, no pilgrims were allowed to come. But this summer Athos will finally … Continue reading →

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2241 – an update: file a complaint against the new large scale commercial company “Avaton water”on the Holy Mountain

Posted on June 19, 2022 by athosweblog

According to this weblog the drilling for mineral water is being carried out without the permission of the Iera Epistatia – the Holy Community- !! The writer of this weblog also asks the question how far the secularization of modern Mount … Continue reading →

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2238 – Athos photo exhibition “Between Heaven and Earth” in Germany by Theodosios

Posted on April 13, 2022 by athosweblog

Tomorrow, Thursday 14th of April at 19h AM an exhibition will open (for only four days) of pictures made by the German monk who lives and works in Simonospetras, Theodosios. The exhibition is in the town Ursensollen in the culural … Continue reading →

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2237 – file a complaint against the new large scale commercial company “Avaton water”on the Holy Mountain

Posted on April 7, 2022 by athosweblog

In post 2233 I informed our readers about the new -large scale- mineral water factory, that recently is build on the hills above Simonospetras by the Macedonian Bottling Company. This company started to build a factory in 2021 with the … Continue reading →

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2233 – the Future of Athos? Avaton water: a company sells the water from a spring of Simonospetras

Posted on February 20, 2022 by athosweblog

The founder of this new enterprise, that will be run in the near future is by a Macedonian bottle company from Thessaloniki, Dimitris Babakos from Cyprus, was during a stay at Simonospetras monastery inspired “to craft and create a superior … Continue reading →

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2226 – photos from buildings to be renovated in Dafni

Posted on December 18, 2021 by athosweblog

One of our readers Vlado Bespalov was so kind share the pictures he took in October 2021 of the buildings belonging Simonospetras in Dafni. The are to be renovated and the work is already in progress: The old buildings in … Continue reading →

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