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Standing like a gate between east and west, between heaven and earth, the Holly Mountain its the center of a peculiar pilgrimage. Byron and his companions hunt orthodox monasteries' treasures, and such impressions gave heart to some lively descriptions, asserting this writer's hand: «To portray a building whose dissimilarity from its fellows on this globe robs metaphor of its natural function is best left to other