Holy Church of Saint George of Lycabettus

This guide to the Holy Church of Saint George of Lycabettus in Athens opens in 1834, when a monk named Emmanuel Louloudakis climbed the bare limestone summit alone to clear a ruined chapel and vanished from the city's memory for three years. It follows what curious Athenians found when they finally climbed up to look, and how the hermit's quiet return reshaped this hilltop into the whitewashed church around you, complete with a bell tower funded decades later and a bell cast in Russia. Listen for what the same summit held long before any chapel stood here.