The monasteries of Meteora in Thessaly are perched atop mighty rock formations; the backdrop starred as a location in Game of ...

AMORGOS, Greece — For more than 50 years, Spyridon Denaxas has prayed, worked and welcomed the faithful in an island monastery carved into a seaside cliff that’s little changed since its ...

Built on top of rocks in the Meteora region in northern Greece, the Meteora monasteries have attracted the attention of believers and nature lovers for centuries. Meteora is a complex of six Orthodox ...

Above the spa town of Kamena Vourla, the Holy Monastery of the Transfiguration of the Saviour has stood for a thousand years On the slopes of Mount Knimida, above the spa town of Kamena Vourla ...

Meteora, Greece’s stalagmite-like hanging rocks that reach into the sky amid a backdrop of craggy mountains and red-roofed monasteries, has become the second most popular destination in mainland ...

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The Agathon Monastery during the Greek Revolution served as a secret school and as a refuge for the fighters of the 21st century. The 35 monks who lived in the monastery at the time, fought for ...

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Others, such as myself, a matter of minutes — fortuitously passing Meteora’s most ... the Ottoman occupation of Greece. At its peak, two dozen Greek Orthodox monasteries were dotted across ...

AMORGOS, Greece (AP) — For more than a millennium, Orthodox Christian monks have woken up in the predawn darkness to start their day with prayer at the Panagia Hozoviotissa Monastery ...