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

High above the Meteora landscape in the central region of Greece, 60 monks and nuns live in fabled monasteries perched on the edge of sandstone peaks. In centuries past, their place of worship ...

Balanced across 24 giant rock formations that reach nearly 400m into the sky ... of monasteries, which by the 14th Century served as shelter from Turkish invaders. The journey to Meteora (a ...

Meteora is a rock formation located in Greece, and houses one of the largest — and most remote — Eastern Orthodox monastery complexes in the world. The monasteries date back to the 14th ...

One of these places was Meteora, an enchanting, surreal complex of Greek Orthodox monasteries perched high on weathered cliffs formed millennia ago. The monasteries (mostly built between the 13th ...

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 ...

With fifty-eight stairs behind me, I have yet to face another 137 to reach my final target: the holy monastery of Varlaam, one of the six still active Meteora monasteries. Perched on a ...

Balanced across 24 giant rock formations that reach nearly 400m into the sky ... of monasteries, which by the 14th Century served as shelter from Turkish invaders. The journey to Meteora (a ...