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 brought ...

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FRUITLAND PARK — The Rev. Meg Ingalls needed a break from her duties as longtime rector of Holy Trinity Episcopal Church, so she went to 25 churches and six monasteries in Greece and Turkey — in just ...

The Monastery of the Holy Trinity is a clifftop monastery in central Greece. It is dubbed as 'the monastery suspended in air' owing to its location: on a rocky precipice at 1,300 feet high.

This week’s Offbeat Traveler is inspired by Los Angeles Times reader Gene Minick, who recently visited the remote monasteries of Metéora in Greece’s Thessaly region. The Fountain Valley resident ...

Meteora, Greece — From a rocky aerie in the forest of stone known as Meteora, the insistent tok-tok-tok of a wooden mallet hammering out a call to prayer seems like the most natural sound in the world ...