The
foundations of the monastery of St Ñaul were laid
in 1972 on a
site higher up the mountain, an hour walk from the nunnery of Hosios
Patapios. The first monk who establishedin this isolated place came here from Mount Athos. Set as it is amid
the dense greenery, the monastery of St Ñaõ1 is truly a place apart from
the world.