Monastery in Greece

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Famous for: Monastery

Seeking recoil from the mounting Turkish occupation, the Eastern Orthodox monks found an ideal haven here. Remote rock pillars dotted over this exclusively chiseled countryside alongside with ca...

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Famous for: Monasteries

Mounting high from the easternmost "leg" of the Chalcidice isthmus and extensively well-known as "Holy Mountain", Mt. Athos is definitely not the ‘heart' of Macedon...

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Famous for: Scenic Beauty

Expelled on Patmos by the Roman Emperor Domitian approximately  in 95 AD, St. John the Theologian, generally recognized with the Apostle John, is said to have received his celestial visions...