The biggest, oldest and highest of the half-dozen monasteries of Meteora is Great Meteoron. It was established, brick by laborious brick, during the 14th century by scholar monk Athanasios and his ...

Meteora in Greece features monasteries perched 1,300 feet high on cliffs, blending faith, nature, and history in a UNESCO protected site.

Dimitrios Tilis/Getty Images For centuries, monks have sought solitude and isolation ... Some of these residences, like the Meteora Monasteries in Greece and Popa Taung Kalat in Myanmar, were ...

Located in central Greece, the Meteora monasteries — now a UNESCO World Heritage Site — are perched on huge cliffs that will take your breath away. Orthodox Christian hermit monks first began ...

as the Eastern Orthodox monks living in the monastery at the top of the Meteora rock formation provided a terrible nuisance on the production. The story goes that the holy men didn't approve of ...

In Georgia's remote Imereti region, monks scale the 40m-high Katskhi Pillar ... I'd long been fascinated by the famous Greek monasteries of Meteora – which are also precipitously built on ...