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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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These locations are wonderfully dramatic and treacherous, but the Greek Orthodox Church one-ups them all with Meteora, a collection of monasteries perched on rock pillars 1300 feet above ground.

When travel writer Patrick Leigh Fermor visited in the 1950s, he found the monasteries of Meteora in a wretched state. “Some of the doors of the empty cells [hung] open. Others were closed with ...

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 ...