1. Such a storm had wrecked Mardonios' fleet off Athos twelve years before.

2. Athos: The most notorious woman in France.

3. Mount Athos monks were once recruited from farming backgrounds.

4. Athos: How many times have you ask for mercy and received it?

5. As night draws in on Mount Athos, the monasteries resonate with a repetitive "tack, tack, tack," a haunting sound that seems to echo around the courtyards.

6. The holy Mount Athos of Greece is a rare resort occupied by 900 monks. It was listed in UNESCO's World Culture Heritage catalogue in 1988.

7. To avoid another shipwreck off Mount Athos, Xerxes had a canal dug behind the promontory .

8. Athos a little clod of the universe: all the present time is a point in eternity.

9. It is only second to Mount Athos. They were built on natural sandstone rock pillars in the plain of Thessaly.

10. It was said that Mount Athos was considered "The Garden of the Virgin Mary", so other women were banned to enter. Thereafter, it became a forbidden area for women.

11. The Byzantine emperor Basil I officially recognized Mount Athos as a spiritual center in A.D. 883.

12. On Athos and elsewhere, monasticism plays an important symbolic role in Greek culture.

13. Athos is a relic of human history. It is the last male retreat on earth.

14. Mount Athos is situated in the most beautiful peninsula of Halkidiki. It is the only place in Greece that is completely dedicated to praying and worshiping God.

15. It covers an area of 130 square miles (336 square kilometers). Athos itself, the holy mountain of the Greek Orthodox Church located at the tip of the peninsula, rises 6,417 feet (1,956 meters).

16. In Alexander Dumas' book, "The Three Musketeers", two of the musketeers are called Athos and Porthos. What was the name of the third Musketeer?

17. Although the number of monks in most monasteries has declined over the decades, Mount Athos has enjoyed a revival in the last 25 years.

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19. He received his substantial role in the 1998 film The Man in the Iron Mask, where he played Raoul, the ill-fated son of John Malkovich's dueling Musketeer, Athos.

20. It gives us a taste of life in the Byzantine years, from the fortresses of Mystras and Monemvasia in Southern Greece, to the famed monasteries and churches of Mount Athos in the North.

21. In 1060, a strict law was enacted in Mt . Athos: Barring any female's entrance.

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23. Monastery Window, Greece : A trinity of sun, sky, and sea paints an inspiring backdrop for the Xenofontos monastery on Mount Athos.

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