Meteora is home not to one, but six fully functioning monasteries. The Holy Trinity, the oldest of those six, is a gravity defying construction overlooking the Greek town of Kalambaka. In order to get ...

This week’s Offbeat Traveler is inspired by Los Angeles Times reader Gene Minick, who recently visited the remote monasteries of Metéora in Greece’s Thessaly region. The Fountain Valley resident ...

FRUITLAND PARK — The Rev. Meg Ingalls needed a break from her duties as longtime rector of Holy Trinity Episcopal Church, so she went to 25 churches and six monasteries in Greece and Turkey — in just ...

There are place names that intrigue and invite us to discover more. Who can see the name Meteora without imagining a connection with the heavens? Indeed, the name of this historic site in the Greek ...

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Meteora, Greece — From a rocky aerie in the forest of stone known as Meteora, the insistent tok-tok-tok of a wooden mallet hammering out a call to prayer seems like the most natural sound in the world ...