Mount Athos - Pilgrimage to "The Garden of Virgin Mary"

This guide was created by the writer/photographer as a result of his forty visits to Mount Athos, amounting to two hundred days spent there in total.

The second edition has been renewed and filled with more information and recent photographs for the reader to admire.

Several interesting subjects are analyzed in this book, including:

Monasticism and monks
Advice and guidelines for the visitor
Spiritual life, sacred relics, athonite terminology and deaconships
Descriptions of the routes leading to the top of Athos, the Desert, Karoulia, Kavsokalyvia, Katounakia, Vigla, Kapsala, as well as of Agiasmata and Caves
Fauna and flora, herbs and local products
Administration, educational institutions and settlements
Analysis of each separate Monastery, Skete, cell, hut, kathisma, hermitage and xerokalyva
History, art, treasures
Complete detailed map of the area

It is dedicated to the athonite monks, the pilgrims, the wanderers and especially to women, as a way to overcome the fact that Athos is, to them, inaccessible. We hope you have a wonderful wandering adventure through the spiritual and physical paths of Mount Athos.