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March 7, 2010
March 7, 2010
Simonos Petras Monastery
Photograph by Travis Dove
This Month in Photo of the Day: National Geographic Magazine Features
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.
See more photographs from the December 2009 feature story "Called to the Holy Mountain."
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