💡 Trivia There's a mountain in Greece that women are prohibited from visiting

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It’s not just the mountain, but an entire peninsula called Mount Athos.

You see, Mount Athos has been home to a collection of monasteries since at least the 4th Century AD.

For more than a thousand years, if not longer, the presence of women has been banned not just from the monasteries but from the whole peninsula.

Mount Athos is an autonomous region of Greece controlled by the Greek Orthodox Church.

According to the Church, the Vîrgín Mary blessed the peninsula and made it her own holy garden, so no other women are allowed to be there.

Other than wild animals and a few cats, the animals there are also all male.


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