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Mount Athos · Stop 5 · Day 2
Vatopedi Monastery
Tradition
The monastery's chronicle dates its founding to Emperor Theodosius the Great at the end of the 4th century; historians date it to the 10th. Pilgrims venerate the Belt of the Mother of God kept here.
Here today
A large monastery by a bay on the north-east coast, with a Byzantine church and a busy guesthouse.
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