The cruise starts from the port of Ouranoupoli at 11:00. Sailing along the southwestern side of the Athonian peninsula, we come across an old stone rampart that demarcates the border between Mount Athos and Ouranoupoli.
Then we will see Skete Thebaid. At a very close distance is Monoxylitis, a member of the Monastery of Dionysios where authentic Agioreit wine is produced (the famous Monoxylitis wine of the same name). Arsanades follow. In order we see the arsenal of the Hilandariou monastery (the Serbian monastery), the arsenal of the Zografou monastery (Bulgarian monastery) and the arsenal of the Konstamonitou monastery.
In the continuation of our route we will meet the monastery of Dochiariou where the miraculous icon of Panagia Gorgoupikou is kept. Immediately after Xenophontos alone, gazes at the waters of the Sigitiko gulf. Followed by the Russian Agios Panteleimonos alone. With the characteristic green onion-shaped domes and the high belfry which is adorned by the second largest bell in the world weighing 13.5 tons.
Just before reaching Dafni, we see the monastery of Xiropotamos, perched on slope 300. Dafni is the main port of Mount Athos, where the liner ships disembark visitors who then choose the appropriate means of transport to reach the monastery of choice their.
We continue our tour after first passing a small Skete of Agios Modestos, followed by the impressive SimonosPetras monastery, the most photographed monastery of Mount Athos. Built at a height of 300m. from the sea on a rock,.
\In a very close distance follows the monastery of Saint Gregory, then the monastery of Dionysios, in which, among other things, the right hand of Saint John the Forerunner, the one that baptized Christ, is kept. The last monastery of our cruise is the monastery of Agios Pavlos, built at the foot of Mount Athos.
As we leave the monastery of Agios Pavlos behind us, we see two of the best-known and largest hermitages on the Mount, the NeaSketi and the Sketi of Agia Anna. Back to Ouranoupoli we return at 14:00.
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