Built between five hundred to a thousand years ago, the monks and hermits of the Greek Orthodox Church sought ever more remote and difficult-to-reach places from where to pray and contemplate.
Hence their position amongst these spectacular sandstone rock formations in central Greece.
Nowadays a sealed road links all the monasteries and they are as much tourist museums as they are living monasteries.
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blissbait
October 17, 2009
that is astounding!!!
i was in greece but missed those
heavenly perches
Thank You SO Much. These photos are wonderful and those monasteries blow my mind!!!
Namaste.