MOUNT ATHOS, Greece (AP) — . The peninsula in northern Greece is no stranger to non-Greeks: of the 20 monasteries, one is Russian, one is Bulgarian and one is Serbian, and the presence of monks from ...
MOUNT ATHOS, Greece (AP) — The medieval monastery clings almost impossibly to sheer cliffs high above the shimmering turquoise of the Aegean Sea. Rising from the rugged granite rock, its walls enclose ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Clinging almost impossibly to a sheer cliff in northern Greece, the Monastery of Simonos Petra, transcends country-based branches ...