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 ...

The Meteora (Greek for ‘suspended in the air’ or ‘in the heavens above’) is a group of six monasteries and one of the largest and most important complexes of Eastern Orthodox monasteries in Greece.

The karst rises from the flatland as if escaping the underworld, violently forced up by something down there. The truth is the opposite. The stark, imposing rocks are what's left after millions of ...

Meteora is one of those places that doesn’t look real until you’re standing there. Towering stone pillars rise straight out of the valley, with monasteries perched on top like something from another ...

The poet and painter Edward Lear once remarked that ‘no pen or pencil’ could do justice to the mountain monasteries at Meteora, and I’m happy to prove him right. Actually, I was meant to be sailing ...