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Penteli Cave has always been a spiritual place. We know that the cave was used to worship Pan in ancient times and then was a refuge for Orthodox Christian hermits, who retreated to this remote location to spend their lives in quiet contemplation and prayer, away from the distractions of civilisation.
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Civilisation caught the hermits and a church was built later in the Middle Ages.
Today it is thought people still come to the cave to practice strange occult rituals.
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