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 ...

Meteora is home not to one, but six fully functioning monasteries. The Holy Trinity, the oldest of those six, is a gravity defying construction overlooking the Greek town of Kalambaka. In order to get ...

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.

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 ...

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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 ...