Walking – pilgrimage route

Borderline to Athos - Pilgrimage route

This route from the Komitsa beach to Ouranoupoli and back, follows a pathway across the borders separating the Holy Community of Mount Athos from the rest of Greece

Borderline to Athos – Pilgrimage route

This route from the Komitsa beach to Ouranoupoli and back, follows a pathway across the borders separating the Holy Community of Mount Athos from the rest of Greece.

Get a glimpse of the natural landscape of Mount Athos with its dense vegetation and forest protected by the Natura 2000 European convention, Feel the calm of Mount Athos with all your senses and let your mind roam in its monasteries, only a few kilometres away!

This route under the pine trees amid the forest scents is a source of life and rejuvenation – mental and physical – and a wander between the allowed and the forbidden, myth and reality.

Route Length 3km

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