Agios Dionysios Monastery

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The Monastery of Agios Dionysios in Olympus is a Greek Orthodox monastery on the slopes of Mount Olympus, the most important monastery in the Pieria Prefecture. It is located at the Enipeas ravine at an altitude of 850 m The original monastery, established in 1542, was destroyed by the Germans in 1943. A new monastery was established at a distance of some 5 km to the northeast of the old one, closer to the town of Litochoro. The Agios Dionysios Monastery is a stavropegic monastery, subordinated directly to the Patriarch of Constantinople. ()

Local name: Μονή Αγίου Διονυσίου εν Ολύμπω Coordinates: 40°7'10"N, 22°28'58"E

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Macedonia and ThraceGreece

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Agios Dionysios Monastery – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Archaeological Museum, Dion, Archaeological Park of Dion, Hellenistic theatre of Dion.

3.5 miN
History museum, Museum, Archaeological museum
Archaeological Museum, Litochoro
90 min walk • The Archaeological Museum of Dion is a museum in Dion in the Pieria regional unit of Central Macedonia, Greece.
3.9 miN
Village, Ancient Greek architecture, Ruins
Dion, Litochoro
101 min walk • Dion or Dio is a village and municipal unit in the municipality of Dion-Olympos in the Pieria regional unit, Greece. It is located at the foot of Mount Olympus at a distance of 17 km from the capital city of Katerini.
3.9 miN
Archaeological site, Ancient Greek architecture
Archaeological Park of Dion, Litochoro
100 min walk • The Archaeological Park of Dion is the most important archaeological site at Mount Olympus in Greece, located in Dion. In the area comprised by the Archaeological Park of Dion, sanctuaries were found from the Hellenistic and Roman periods.
3.7 miN
Archaeological site, Ancient Greek architecture
Hellenistic theatre of Dion, Litochoro
94 min walk • The largest building of the Archaeological Park of Dion in northern Greece is the Hellenistic-era theatre. It is located in the south of the village of Dion, Pieria and is often used during the summer for performances of the Olympus Festival.
5.9 miSE
Natural history museum, Museum
Olympus Geological History Museum, Leptokarya
151 min walk • The Olympus Geological History Museum is a geological museum in the town of Leptokarya at the foot of Mount Olympus in northern Greece. It presents in several exhibition rooms, rocks and minerals from the region and fossils from the Olympus and from the surrounding area.
1.5 miSE
Museum, Maritime museum
Nautical Museum of Litochoro, Litochoro
38 min walk • The seafaring of the inhabitants of the Greek mountain village Litochoro has a long tradition which is represented in the Nautical Museum.