Save guides, add subjects and pick up where you left off with your BBC account. Monasteries were places where monks lived. Monks devoted their lives to God and doing his work. They also provided ...

The Monastery of Simonos Petra clings almost impossibly to a sheer cliff above the Aegean Sea in northern Greece.

the monks in the Middle Ages thought, what was important to them, and how they decorated their monastery," Heun stated. She further noted that the wall paintings help to discover "to what extent ...

The Monastery of Simonos Petra clings almost impossibly to a sheer cliff above the Aegean Sea in northern Greece.