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Photograph by Travis Dove
Simonos Petras Monastery
Redoubt of the reclusive, Simonos Petras monastery was
founded in 1257 more than 800 feet above the Aegean Sea. It is one of 20
monasteries on the steep-sloped Greek peninsula of Mount Athos, a popular
pilgrimage site sometimes called the Christian Tibet.
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