Mount Olympos

Mount Olympos rises between Thessaly and Macedonia, its many peaks and deep gorges looking towards the Aegean. Mytikas is the highest summit in Greece. In Greek myth the mountain was the home of the gods, and ancient pilgrims climbed its heights to offer sacrifice; a sanctuary of Zeus stood on the peak now called Agios Antonios. Christian monasteries later occupied its slopes, among them the monastery of the Holy Trinity at Sparmos, which flourished in the early eighteenth century.