Father Epiphanios, monastic figure, renowned chef and winemaker, introduces us to the beauty of Mount Athos and reveals the secrets of the Athonian Gastronomy.
Mount Athos is a mountain and peninsula in northern Greece and an important centre of eastern orthodox monasticism. It is governed as an autonomous polity within the Greek Republic under the official name Autonomous Monastic State of the Holy Mountain. Mount Athos is home
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St. Catherine’s Church (Agia Aikaterini) is small church with a beautiful sunken garden located in a central area of Athens. Greek ruins accent this garden illustrating how churches have been built on ancient temples throughout Greece.
The center of the island of Crete located Arkadi Monastery (Greek: Μονή Αρκαδίου, Moni Arkadiou) that his name due to the Byzantine (Eastern Roman) emperor Arkadios has an important role in the independence struggle of the Cretans against the Turks.
In the 5th century, the monastery at the site of a Byzantine church. The facade is Venetian and dates from 1587. The rest of the building dates from the 17th century. In the battle with the Turks, much of the interior has been lost. The monastery is still inhabited by Greek Orthodox monks.
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