Stock Photo: Xenophontos Monastery Orthodox Mount Athos Landscape Greece
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Xenophontos Monastery Orthodox monastery at Mount Athos, Holy Mountain, Halkidiki, Greece. View from the sea.Seaside Orthodox monastery founded in the 10th c., featuring 16th-c. frescoes & open only to men. is one of the twenty Eastern Orthodox monasteries on Mount Athos, located on the southwestern side of the peninsula in Northern Greece. Occupation of the peninsula is permitted only on the monks The monastery can only be viewed from a cruise ship, which sails 0.5 km from the coastline. Only men are allowed to enter the monks' country after obtaining a visa.September 21th 2014, Aegean sea Greece
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