Agios Dionysios Monastery, Olympus
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.Photo: Haneburger, CC0.
- Type: Church
- Description: monastery in Dion-Olympos Municipality, Greece
- Also known as: “Saint Dionysius Old Monastery, Olympus” and “Παλαιά Ιερά Μονή Αγίου Διονυσίου εν Ολύμπω”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Olympos National Park and Olympos National Park.
Olympos National Park
Photo: Kallerna, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Olympos National Park, in the Macedonian-Thessalian border in northern Greece, is home to Mount Olympus, the country's highest mountain.
Olympos National Park
Nature reserve
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Mount Olympus is an extensive massif near the Thermaic Gulf of the Aegean Sea, in Greece, located on the border between Thessaly and Macedonia, between the regional units of Larissa and Pieria, about 80 km southwest from Thessaloniki. Olympos National Park is situated 3½ km southwest of Agios Dionysios Monastery, Olympus.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Litochoro and Platanakia.
Litochoro
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Litochoro is a town and a former municipality in the southern part of the Pieria regional unit, Macedonia, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it has been part of the Dio-Olympos municipality, of which it is the seat and a municipal unit.
Platanakia
Village
Photo: Lemur12, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Platanakia is a settlement of the former municipality of Dion, which is part of the municipality of Dio-Olympos, in the Pieria regional unit, Central Macedonia, Greece. Platanakia is situated 9 km northeast of Agios Dionysios Monastery, Olympus.
Agios Dionysios Monastery, Olympus
- Categories: monastery, human settlement, place of worship, and religion
- Location: Dio-Olympos, Pieria, Central Macedonia, Greece, Balkans, Europe
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Latitude
40.09416° or 40° 5′ 39″ northLongitude
22.42855° or 22° 25′ 43″ eastPopulation
30Open location code
8GG43CVH+MCOpenStreetMap ID
node 779608610OpenStreetMap feature
amenity=place_of_worshipWikidata ID
Q12293165
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In Other Languages
From Bulgarian to Turkish—“Agios Dionysios Monastery, Olympus” goes by many names.
- Bulgarian: “Свети Дионисий (Литохоро)”
- Bulgarian: “Свети Дионисий Олимпийски Стар”
- Danish: “Agios Dionysios-klosteret”
- German: “Kloster Agios Dionysios”
- Greek: “Ιερά Μονή Αγίου Διονυσίου εν Ολύμπω”
- Greek: “Μονή Αγίου Διονυσίου εν Ολύμπω”
- Greek: “Μονή Αγίου Διονυσίου Πιερίας”
- Russian: “Монастырь Святого Дионисия Олимпского”
- Spanish: “Monasterio de San Dionisio”
- Turkish: “Aziz Dionysius Eski Manastırı”
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