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Tag Archives: Velas
2020 – a sneak preview of the 2018 pilgrimage and news from Athos
From the monastery of Simonospetras, where we could sleep for two nights thanks to monk T., I will show a few images that I shot the last three days: The cave/old boat house from 1853 at arsanas Prodromou News item: … Continue reading
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Tagged aqueduct, flak position, rescue, Velas
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1617- One remnant of the destroyed coast path between Iviron and Lavra: the Velas bridge
The long dirtroad from Iviron to Megisti Lavra was once of course a mulepath. I think that after the millenium festivities in 1963 when the road Dafni Karyes was made that the bulldozering of the track began. I found a … Continue reading