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 ...

The monasteries of Meteora are located just outside the town ... St. Stephen's Monastery, which has been inhabited by nuns since the 1960s, is the easiest monastery for visitors to access.

The most intimate, Roussanou Monastery, is now home to 16 nuns and holds relics of Saint Barbara, popular in medieval times. For centuries the only way to reach Roussanou and the other Meteora ...

The journey to Meteora (a 4- to 5-hour drive from Athens ... Since 1988 it has been occupied by nuns. The Holy Monastery of St Nicholas houses a single-nave church with a small dome, decorated ...

the golden period of Meteora, when a total of 24 monasteries were in existence, of which only six remain today with just a handful of monks and nuns inhabiting their hallowed walls. The almost ...

The monasteries of Meteora in Thessaly are perched atop mighty rock formations; the backdrop starred as a location in Game of Thrones - Paul Williams /Alamy ...

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 ...

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.

The journey to Meteora (a 4- to 5-hour drive from Athens ... Since 1988 it has been occupied by nuns. The Holy Monastery of St Nicholas houses a single-nave church with a small dome, decorated ...