🏔️ Mount Athos

Greece · Europe · Mixed · 40.27°N, 24.22°E

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Mount Athos
Mount Athos is a mountain on the Athos peninsula in northeastern Greece directly on the Aegean Sea. It is an important center of Eastern Orthodox monasticism.

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Quick facts

CountryGreece
Continent / regionEurope
List type🏔️ Mixed heritage site
Coordinates (approx.)40.27°N, 24.22°E · view on map

Mount Athos is a mixed World Heritage site in Greece, in Europe. For the living forecast of the area, open World Weather; the details of why Mount Athos was inscribed are described by the sourced introduction above (from Wikipedia).

More sites in Greece

Acropolis, Athens · Archaeological Site of Delphi · Meteora · Site of Olympia · Delos · Old Town of Corfu · Medieval City of Rhodes · Sanctuary of Asklepios at Epidaurus · Monastery of Mystras · Archaeological Site of Vergina (Aigai) · Monastery of Saint John the Theologian, Patmos · Paleochristian and Byzantine Monuments of Thessaloniki · Temple of Apollo Epikourios at Bassae · Monastery of Daphni · Archaeological Site of Philippi · Temple of Apollo Epicurius at Bassae · Paleochristian and Byzantine Monuments of Thessalonika · Pythagoreion and Heraion of Samos · Archaeological Site of Aigai (modern name Vergina) · Archaeological Sites of Mycenae and Tiryns · The Historic Centre (Chorá) with the Monastery of Saint-John the Theologian and the Cave of the Apocalypse on the Island of Pátmos · Zagori Cultural Landscape · Minoan Palatial Centres · The wider area of Mount Olympus.

Coordinates are an approximate site centre. Introduction & image: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), cached 30 days; the page renders even if the feed is momentarily unreachable.

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