Meteora is a complex of imposing dark rocks, rising over the settlements of Kalampaka and the picturesque Kastraki village, on the plain of Thessaly, Greece. There are approximately 900 multi-pitch ...

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 ...

“I wanted this to feel like what was here before was a temple that hadn’t been inhabited for several hundreds of years, and the plants and the animals took over,” chef Jordan Kahn says of Meteora, the ...

Don’t make my Meteora day trip mistake. Here’s what you should differently when you visit Greece’s most beautiful spot and the Meteora Monasteries. Meteora took my breath away. Standing beneath those ...

This article was produced by National Geographic Traveller (UK). As the sun sinks towards the serrated horizon of the distant Pindus Mountains, the assembled congregation grows quiet. There are ...

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