Monastery on the Holy Mount Athos.On clear days the towering pyramid of the Holy Mountain of Athos appears in the sea west of Thassos. Since the early periods of orthodox monastic civilization on the Athos Peninsula there were intense cultural and economic relations to neighbouring Thassos. Several of the monasteries owned extensive estates on the island. In the villages of Thassos, monks supervised the agricultural works from satellite centres ("metóchia"). These estate mansions were erected in the style of Athos: in Kazaviti the metóchi of the Athos monastery Esphigmenou of 1807 (now house Manola of our project...) and the metóchi of the monastery Megisti Lavra of 1843, at the drive way to the central square. There was a third such metóchi in Kazaviti at Rodia square, dated 1803 or 1805, but it has been altered in its outer appearance sadly beyond recognition. (if you know the missing monastery names, please let me know ) |
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