Today, the monasteries are accessible by paved roads, bridges, and stairs ... Meteora to reach the peaks of the rock columns. However, it was not always so easy to get to the monasteries. Before ...

The monasteries of Meteora, Greece, are marvels of engineering ... Today new tunnels and steep roads and staircases open the churches to anyone willing to make a cliffside journey.

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 ...