Mount Athos

An excerpt from Veronica della Dora’s entry, Landscape, Nature and the Sacred in Byzantium

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The reassuring enclosure of a garden and the overwhelming vastness of a desert swept by the wind; the majestic charisma of a mountain looming on the horizon and the impenetrable darkness of a cave; the flamboyant glistening of a torrent and the touch of the waves caressing the seashore as the sun is about to … Read more

An interview with Veronica della Dora, author of Landscape, Nature and the Sacred in Byzantium

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Thank you for taking the time to talk to us, Veronica. Your book is full of descriptions of special places: gardens, mountains, caves, rivers. Do you have any particular favourites among the places that you have visited? I would say each of these places has its own special charm, and when it came to find the … Read more