The monastery complex of Meteora, Greece, sits thousands of feet above the ground, making it one of the most remote places to live and worship in the world.; While 30 monasteries were built over ...

The monasteries of Meteora are one of Greece's biggest attractions. The area's also popular for adventure travel, including rock-climbing and rafting . CNN — ...

Hollywood icon Mel Gibson is reportedly in Greece for a spiritual retreat before filming begins for "The Resurrection of Christ" in August.

This story appears in the March 2020 issue of National Geographic magazine. The monasteries of Meteora, Greece, are marvels of engineering. Perched atop sandstone cliffs, with monastic cells ...

Clinging almost impossibly to a sheer cliff in northern Greece, the Monastery of Simonos Petra, also known as Simonopetra — or Simon's Rock — transcends country-based branches of the Christian ...

This week's Offbeat Traveler is inspired by Los Angeles Times reader Gene Minick, who recently visited the remote monasteries of Metéora in Greece's Thessaly region.

ATHENS — At least three centuries-old Greek monasteries in the religious enclave of Mount Athos were damaged in an earthquake over the weekend, the culture ministry said Wednesday. The ministry ...

THESSALONIKI, Greece — Centuries-old monasteries have been damaged by an ongoing series of earthquakes in a secluded monastic community in northern Greece, authorities said Friday. A magnitude 5 ...

Clinging to a Greek cliff, this monastery welcomes people from around the world. No women allowed The monastery is one of 20 in the autonomous all-male monastic community of Mount Athos, known in ...

Clinging almost impossibly to a sheer cliff in northern Greece, the Monastery of Simonos Petra, also known as Simonopetra — or Simon’s Rock — transcends country-based branches of the ...

The monastery is one of 20 in the autonomous all-male monastic community of Mount Athos, known in Greek as Agion Oros, or Holy Mountain. The peninsula in northern Greece is no stranger to non ...