Agios Oros Pilgrims Suppot visit Mount Athos Greece 3
- 12 years ago
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This environment of concentration on God and physical isolation from the hectic pace of today’s life has proved highly beneficial to the human psyche and temperament. For this reason, pilgrimages by people regardless of ethnicity or religion have developed to the extent that the Holy Mountain is being visited by around 120,000 tourists annually, a figure that approximates the one million if one includes visits and circumnavigations of the peninsula, performed by small private boats and cruise ships, with the permit issuances to exceed 120 daily for entering the monasteries on average.
This environment of concentration on God and physical isolation from the hectic pace of today’s life has proved highly beneficial to the human psyche and temperament. For this reason, pilgrimages by people regardless of ethnicity or religion have developed to the extent that the Holy Mountain is being visited by around 120,000 tourists annually, a figure that approximates the one million if one includes visits and circumnavigations of the peninsula, performed by small private boats and cruise ships, with the permit issuances to exceed 120 daily for entering the monasteries on average.