Mount Olympus Cave Shrine#
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Mount Olympus Cave Shrine, June 2011, © Gerhard Huber, under CC BY-NC 4.0 +Edu
Only during the middle ages byzantine monks dared to venture in this holy aerea and built hidden shelters to lead a hermitic life.
Erst im europäischen Mittelalter wagten sich byzantinische Mönche in dieses heilige Gebiet und gründeten versteckte Einsiedeleien.