Mount Athos

Mount Athos, also Monte Santo, is a mountain and a narrow mountaious peninsula in northeaster Greece that projects into the Aegean Sea.

The mountain is 6780 ft. high at the southern extremity of the most northerly peninsula of Salonica, covered with monasteries, inhabited exclusively by monks of the Greek Church, and rich in curious manuscripts. The Greek Orthodox monks are known to forbid women and even female animals to set foot on the peninsula.

The monks devote themselves to gardening, bee-culture, and other rural occupations, the more devout among them at one time celebrated for the edification they derived from the study of their own navels.