The medieval monastery clings almost impossibly to sheer cliffs high above the shimmering turquoise of the Aegean Sea.

One of Europe's best-preserved medieval monasteries lies in the Rheingau ... Eberbach became world famous as a film backdrop Eberbach Abbey actually did once own broad expanses of land and vineyards.

Clinging almost impossibly to a sheer cliff in northern Greece, the Monastery of Simonos Petra, also known as Simonopetra — ...

The most famous of these gave the monastery its ... Sevanavank had the strictest lifestyle and conduct guidelines of any monastery in Medieval Armenia. At the time when the monastery was built ...

History Under the Pavement The parking lot where the dig is unfolding covers the site of what was once Grey Friars Abbey, a medieval monastery founded by the Franciscans in the 13th century and ...

The Ministry of Culture and Tourism has announced that several late Antique Age and Medieval monasteries and churches in Mardin's Tur Abdin area have been included in the tentative list of UNESCO ...

Nalanda, the Buddhist mega-monastery in present-day Bihar, was perhaps the single most famous centre of higher ... developing skills and practices useful to medieval royals. Patronising Nalanda ...

Restorers working at the Monastery of St. Bishoy in the Wadi El-Natroun area have uncovered a number of medieval-era wall-paintings and architectural elements in the monastery's old church.