Greece

Agia Triada Monastery

Chania, Crete, Greece

Agia Triada Monastery rises from the Akrotiri Peninsula near Chania, a 17th-century complex where Renaissance proportions serve Orthodox devotion....

Agiou Panteleimonos Monastery

Mount Athos, Mount Athos, Chalkidiki, Central Macedonia, Greece

Its inclusion on Monastic Resident body of Mount Athos is supported by the reviewed route, religious, heritage, and structured-canonical subject consulted records....

Agiou Pavlou Monastery

Mount Athos, Mount Athos, Chalkidiki, Central Macedonia, Greece

Agiou Pavlou Monastery is treated here as the exact whole-site entity in Mount Athos, Mount Athos, Chalkidiki, Central Macedonia, Greece, not as a route label or nearby...

Asklepion shrine

Athens, Attica, Greece

On the south slope of the Acropolis, tucked against the rock below the Parthenon, the Asclepieion of Athens preserves the remains of a sanctuary where the sick once came...

Cape Sounion

Lavreotiki Municipal Unit, Attica, Greece

Fifteen white marble columns stand on a headland sixty meters above the sea, marking the southernmost point of Attica....

Chrysoskalitissa Monastery

Chrisoskalitissa, Crete, Greece

Chrysoskalitissa Monastery stands on a rock promontory thirty-five meters above the southwestern coast of Crete, overlooking the Libyan Sea toward Africa....

Church of Panagia Chrisopigi, Sifnos Island

Φάρος, South Aegean, Greece

Panagia Chrysopigi sits on a rocky islet off the southern coast of Sifnos, connected to the island by a slender bridge....

Delos

Municipality of Mykonos, South Aegean, Greece

Delos stands where light entered the world. According to Greek myth, this tiny island was floating and rootless until Leto gave birth to Apollo and Artemis here, and the...

Delphi

Municipal Unit of Delphi, Central Greece, Greece

Delphi stands where the Greeks placed the center of the world. Zeus sent eagles from the ends of the earth; where they crossed, he set the omphalos, the navel stone....

Diktaion Andron Cave

Part of Mt. Dicti

Psichro, Crete, Greece

High on the slopes of Mount Dicte, above the enclosed bowl of the Lassithi Plateau, the Diktaion Andron opens into the limestone of Crete like a wound in the surface of...

Dionysiou Monastery

Mount Athos, Mount Athos, Chalkidiki, Central Macedonia, Greece

Access is restricted: Mount Athos requires a diamonitirion, and the avaton bars women from entry....

Docheiariou Monastery

Mount Athos, Mount Athos, Chalkidiki, Central Macedonia, Greece

Docheiariou Monastery is treated here as the exact whole-site entity in Mount Athos, Mount Athos, Chalkidiki, Central Macedonia, Greece, not as a route label or nearby...

Dodona

Μαντείο, Epirus, Greece

For over a millennium, ordinary Greeks climbed to this remote Epirote valley to pose life's most urgent questions to the sacred oak of Zeus....

Epidauros

Municipal Unit of Epidavros, Peloponnese, Greece

Epidauros was the most important healing sanctuary in the ancient Greek world. Here, in an intimate valley of the Peloponnese, patients came to sleep in the sacred...

Esphigmenou Monastery

Mount Athos, monastic community of Mount Athos, Greece

Esphigmenou is an Eastern Orthodox monastery dedicated to the Ascension of Christ at the northern end of Mount Athos....

Filotheou Monastery

Mount Athos, Mount Athos, Chalkidiki, Central Macedonia, Greece

The record concerns a living Athonite monastery within Eastern Orthodox Christianity....

Great Lavra Monastery

Mount Athos, Mount Athos, Chalkidiki, Central Macedonia, Greece

Google Places, Wikidata, the supplied encyclopedic record, and a rights-cleared exact-subject image converge on the same place....

Hilandar Monastery

Mount Athos, Mount Athos, Chalkidiki, Central Macedonia, Greece

The record concerns a living Athonite monastery within Eastern Orthodox Christianity....

Holy Cave of the Apocalypse

Between Skala and Chora, South Aegean, Greece

In this small cave on Patmos, tradition holds that Saint John received the Book of Revelation nearly two thousand years ago....

Holy Monastery of Great Meteoron

Kalabaka, Thessaly, Greece

Holy Monastery of Great Meteoron is a living Orthodox monastery on a Meteora rock pillar in Kalabaka, Greece....

Holy Monastery of Saint John the Theologian, Patmos

Patmos, South Aegean, Greece

The Monastery of Saint John the Theologian crowns the island of Patmos, built above the cave where Saint John received the visions recorded in the Book of Revelation....

Holy Trinity Monastery, Meteora

Kalambaka, Thessaly, Greece

Holy Trinity Monastery, or Agia Triada, occupies an isolated Meteora rock above Kalambaka....

Iviron Monastery

Mount Athos, Mount Athos, Chalkidiki, Central Macedonia, Greece

Its inclusion on Monastic Custodial community of Mount Athos is supported by the reviewed route, religious, material legacy, and structured-place identity authorities....

Kamares Cave

Tybakio Municipal Unit, Crete, Greece

High on the southern face of Mount Ida, the highest mountain in Crete, a vast arched entrance opens into the mountain at nearly 1,700 meters....

Karakalou Monastery

Mount Athos, Mount Athos, Chalkidiki, Central Macedonia, Greece

Its inclusion on Monastic Responsible group of Mount Athos is supported by the reviewed route, religious, cultural inheritance, and structured-entity resolution research...

Knossos

Heraklion Municipal Unit, Crete, Greece

Knossos rises from the hills south of Heraklion on Crete, the ceremonial and sacred heart of the Minoan civilization....

Konstamonitou Monastery

Mount Athos, Mount Athos, Chalkidiki, Central Macedonia, Greece

The record concerns a living Athonite monastery within Eastern Orthodox Christianity....

Koutloumousiou Monastery

Mount Athos, Mount Athos, Chalkidiki, Central Macedonia, Greece

Koutloumousiou Monastery is treated here as the exact whole-site entity in Mount Athos, Mount Athos, Chalkidiki, Central Macedonia, Greece, not as a route label or nearby...

Kutuklu Baba Tekke, Selina, Greece

Συδινή, Eastern Macedonia and Thrace, Greece

On the western shore of Lake Vistonida in Greek Thrace, a small octagonal stone building holds two living faiths under one dome....

Lato

Agios Nikolaos Municipal Unit, Crete, Greece

High on a mountain saddle in eastern Crete, the ruins of Lato spread across a ridge overlooking the Gulf of Mirabello....

Meteora

Kalabaka, Thessaly, Greece

Meteora rises from the western edge of the Thessaly plain in central Greece, a forest of sandstone pillars reaching up to 400 meters, crowned by six active Orthodox...

Monastery of Arkadi

Municipality of Rethymnon, Crete, Greece

On a fertile plateau above the olive groves of western Crete, the Monastery of Arkadi holds two kinds of sacred weight....

Monastery of Hozoviótissa, Amorgos Island

Amorgos, South Aegean, Greece

The Monastery of Hozoviótissa clings to a sheer cliff face on Amorgos, eight levels of whitewashed stone barely five meters wide, rising 300 meters above the Aegean....

Mount Parnitha

Regional Unit of East Attica, Attica, Greece

Mount Parnitha rises as the highest peak in Attica, a forested wilderness just thirty kilometers north of Athens....

Mt. Athos

monastic community of Mount Athos, Greece

Mount Athos rises 2,033 meters above the Aegean at the tip of a forested peninsula in northern Greece....

Mt. Dicti

Psichro, Crete, Greece

Mount Dikti rises 2,148 meters above eastern Crete, anchoring a sacred landscape that spans eight millennia of continuous human reverence....

Mt. Ida

Kouroutes, Crete, Greece

Mount Ida rises 2,456 meters above central Crete, the island's highest point and one of the most layered sacred landscapes in the Mediterranean....

Mt. Juktas Minoan Peak Sanctuary, Crete

Archanes Municipal Unit, Crete, Greece

Mount Juktas rises 811 meters above the Cretan lowlands, its summit crowned by the remains of the most important peak sanctuary in Minoan civilization and a Venetian-era...

Mt. Kofinas Minoan Peak Sanctuary, Crete

Kofinas Municipal Unit, Crete, Greece

At 1,231 metres, Mt. Kofinas rises as the highest peak of the Asterousia range, the southernmost mountain chain in Europe....

Mt. Olympus

Dion - Olympos Municipality, Thessaly, Greece

Mount Olympus rises 2,917 meters above the Pierian plain in northern Greece, the highest peak in the country and the most mythologically significant mountain in Western...

Mt. Pelion

Municipal Unit of Zagora, Thessaly, Greece

Mount Pelion rises as a forested peninsula between the Pagasetic Gulf and the Aegean Sea in Thessaly, Greece....

Mycenae

Municipal Unit of Mykines, Peloponnese, Greece

Mycenae rises from a rocky spur between two ravines in the northeastern Peloponnese, commanding the Argive Plain with a strategic authority that persists in the bones of...

Olympia

Municipal Unit of Archea Olympia, West Greece, Greece

Olympia stands in the green valley of the Alpheios River in the western Peloponnese, the supreme Panhellenic sanctuary of Zeus and the site where, for over a thousand...

Omphalos Stone

Part of Delphi

Central Greece, Greece

In Greek belief Zeus released two eagles from opposite ends of the earth; they crossed paths above Delphi, and the omphalos was set there to mark the navel of the world....

Oracle at Cape Tainaron (Mataram), Peloponnese, Greece

East Mani Municipal Unit, Peloponnese, Greece

Cape Tainaron stands at the southern tip of the Mani Peninsula, where the Greek mainland dissolves into the convergence of three seas....

Osiou Grigoriou Monastery

Mount Athos, Mount Athos, Chalkidiki, Central Macedonia, Greece

Google Places, Wikidata, the supplied encyclopedic record, and a rights-cleared exact-subject image converge on the same place....

Palace of Knossos

Part of Knossos

Heraklion Municipal Unit, Crete, Greece

The Palace of Knossos spreads across a low hill five kilometers south of Heraklion, the ceremonial and sacred center of the first advanced civilization to emerge in Europe....

Paliani Monastery

Paliani Municipal Unit, Crete, Greece

Paliani Monastery stands among olive groves near the village of Venerato, twenty kilometers southwest of Heraklion....