Greek monks were trying to build monasteries in places that were hidden or difficult to access in order to protect them from ...

The UNESCO World Heritage site, in Greece, is home to a series of Eastern Orthodox monasteries balancing on top of cliffs, and served as inspiration for the Eyrie in "Game of Thrones." Story by ...

For centuries, monks have sought solitude and isolation on their path to spiritual enlightenment, choosing some of the most remote places on the globe to construct their monasteries. Some of these ...

This island archipelago north of Athens offers the best attributes of the Aegean without the crowds or commoditized Hellenism ...

The men, 22 in all, had taken a bus more than 1,000 km (620 miles) from the Ukrainian city of Lviv to a monastery built on a cliff on the mountainous Athos peninsula in northern Greece, where they ...