Balanced across 24 pillars are monasteries, visible through the clouds. Related video: The Greek ... to inhabit Meteora arrived in the 9th Century. In a bid to escape everyday life, they braved ...

Others, such as myself, a matter of minutes — fortuitously passing Meteora’s most ... the Ottoman occupation of Greece. At its peak, two dozen Greek Orthodox monasteries were dotted across ...

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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 ...

In October, I flew to Greece to visit my daughter ... the 11th century because of its remoteness; monasteries followed. The area is known as Meteora. The views of the rising rock formations ...