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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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 ...

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 hidden in ...

Six of the 24 Orthodox Christian monasteries strewn across Meteora, a collection of massive stone pillars and rounded boulders in northwestern Greece, are still active more than 700 years after the ...

As the sun sinks towards the serrated horizon of the distant Pindus Mountains, the assembled congregation grows quiet. There are perhaps 40 people gathered here, each occupying their own smooth ...