But beyond the monasteries and mountains, Meteora is far from being just a ... s oldest known man-made structures lies at the cave entrance: a wall believed to be 23,000 years old.

The monasteries of Meteora are located just outside the town ... and a small stone bridge allows easy access to the entrance. However, although it might be the easiest to visit, it may not be ...

The Meteora settlements comprise one of the ... I find it hard to believe, but finally I am at the entrance of Varlaam monastery. I’ve made it! We get the last instructions: “Talk quietly ...

Sitting behind the desk at the entrance is an earnest young ... of almost 90 men and women spread around the 12 monasteries and nunneries in Meteora and the surrounding district.

The poet and painter Edward Lear once remarked that 'no pen or pencil' could do justice to the mountain monasteries at Meteora ... you step into the narthex, or entrance-chamber, of its main ...

Some of these residences, like the Meteora Monasteries in Greece and Popa Taung ... which is tucked into the folds of a ...

These locations are wonderfully dramatic and treacherous, but the Greek Orthodox Church one-ups them all with Meteora, a collection of monasteries perched on rock pillars 1300 feet above ground.

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 ...

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 ...