Carved right into the rock, up on a cliffside or overlooking the valley from atop a rocky promontory... In the Balkans, from ...

The monasteries of Meteora in Thessaly are perched atop mighty rock formations; the backdrop starred as a location in Game of Thrones - Paul Williams /Alamy ...

Meteora rocks are rising ... since the establishment of the first ascetics in Greece. The historical evidence suggests that in the past, the monasteries of Meteora were thirty in total.