They are men—exclusively. According to rigidly enforced custom, women have been forbidden to visit Mount Athos since its earliest days—a position born out of weakness rather than spite.

If you’re a man you can apply for a four-day visit. Contact the Mount Athos Office in Thessaloniki by phone or mail. Allow several weeks at least. Entry is limited to 100 Greek Orthodox and 10 ...

Visit the homepage for more information. The monks’ republic situated on the peninsula of Mount Athos in the north-western region of Greece was founded in 963 and is home to twenty monasteries with ...

The number of Russians visiting Mount Athos has fallen as a result of the dispute between the Russian Orthodox Church and Constantinople MOSCOW, December 3. /TASS/. The number of Russians visiting ...

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 ...