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Mount Athos, the Greek stronghold that bans women from entering

A monk walks along the only street with shops in the center of Karyes, the administrative capital of the Monastic State of Mount Athos.

Orthodox monks rise to pray at 4.00 am at the Monastery of Saint Gregory, located on Mount Athos, considered by Orthodox Christians to be the Garden of the Virgin Mary. Not even at that hour do the lap of the Aegean Sea and the birdsong prevail over the hum of the electric generators. Hours later, the roar of an infrastructure project funded by the Greek government and the European Union will join the soundscape. Modernity marches on by way of EU funds at this location that is home to 20 monasteries, where some monks drive up the slopes in all-terrain vehicles. Maybe in a few years electric cars will be seen on the streets, or maybe drones will carry food to the most inaccessible spots. What will probably not be anywhere in sight, however, are women.

Photograph montage of various monks who governed the monasteries of Mount Athos, hung on a wall of the Monastery of Saint Gregory.

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A group of women looks at the Mount Athos peninsula from a pilgrimage-and-tourist cruise that sails the regulatory distance of 500 meters from the coast.

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