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Just a 45-minute walk uphill from the shore takes you to these two hidden treasures. These two monasteries are slightly off the beaten track, making a trip to see the vivid frescoes inside even more special. Only men are permitted to enter the Bete
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with icons, mural paintings, crowns crosses, vestments, illuminating manuscripts, and others. The museum is known especially for its particular types of manuscripts known as an iron cloth of the founding saint (Abune Betre Mariam) illuminated manuscripts and other invaluable antiques.
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among the shores of Lake Tana and on the different island since the 4th century. Mehal Zege
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Set on a hill around 100m above the lake, a short trek up a winding path leads to one of the most sacred monasteries, the monastery of Dega
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churches were founded in the Zege peninsula that occupy a large land mass that pushes the lake from the west in an easterly direction. Among the monasteries of Zeghie, Mahal Zeghie
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Mariyam churches possess a
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