Daou Pendeli Monastery

(Local Name: Moní Daou Pendéli) On the eastern slopes of Pentélikon is a monastery, Daou Pendéli. It is reached by leaving Athens on the Marathón road and turning left 21km/13mi from the city center. Daou Pendéli, founded in the 12th century and rebuilt in the 16th, has been called "the only example of a large monastic establishment in Greece outside Athos" (Kirsten-Kraiker).