Meteora is a rock formation located in Greece ... it began operating as a nunnery. St. Stephen's Monastery, which has been inhabited by nuns since the 1960s, is the easiest monastery for visitors ...

the Church of St Nicholas is one of the iconic images of Meteora and contains the famous frescoes by the Cretan artist Theophanis Strelitzas. The secluded Monastery of Saint Stephen, one of the ...

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 ...

Carved right into the rock, up on a cliffside or overlooking the valley from atop a rocky promontory... In the Balkans, from mainland Greece to Bulgaria, there are plenty of isolated hilltop ...

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 ...

Today, the enormous fingers pointing to the heavens are a protected Unesco World Heritage Site and go by the name Meteora – which ... The Holy Monastery of St Nicholas houses a single-nave ...