The Greek authorities have however, pointed out that the natural regeneration of the forest is progressing satisfactorily. The Greek authorities point out that Mt. Athos is an autonomous region within ...

This story appears in the December 2009 issue of National Geographic magazine. The holy peninsula of Mount Athos reaches 31 miles out into the Aegean Sea like an appendage struggling to dislocate ...

However, few are as unique or as shrouded in mystique as Mount Athos, an autonomous monastic state in Greece. Nestled on a rugged peninsula in northern Greece, Mount Athos has been a center of ...

The Nomination files produced by the States Parties are published by the World Heritage Centre at its website and/or in working documents in order to ensure transparency, access to information and to ...

TASS/. Mount Athos is to a great extent a source of moral foundations of the society, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Saturday on a visit to Mount Athos to mark the 1,000-year presence of ...

BWX Technologies (BWXT) officially opened its Innovation Campus at its Mount Athos facility, propelling the advancement of ...

Mount Athos and its late medieval monasteries is a popular destination for pilgrims from across the Orthodox world. Women have always been banned from entering the 1,000-year-old community, a rule ...