Montserrat means “serrated mountain,” and these rugged peaks hide the Benedictine monastery of Santa Maria de Montserrat, sitting at nearly 4,000 feet elevation and carved into the mountainside. The ...

Barcelona isn’t just a destination—it’s a mood. It’s the clink of sangria glasses at sunset, the hypnotic rhythm of flamenco ...

This attraction is about a 1-hour drive from the city. This is a huge monastery that lives on the top of the Montserrat mountain range. You literally have to drive through the clouds to reach it, so ...

Saint Catherine's Monastery at the foot of Mount Sinai, Egypt is one of the most important Christian monasteries in the world ...

MOUNT ATHOS, Greece (AP) — The medieval monastery clings almost impossibly to sheer cliffs high above the shimmering ...

The monastery is one of 20 in the autonomous all-male monastic community of Mount Athos, known in Greek as Agion Oros, or Holy Mountain. The peninsula in northern Greece is no stranger to non ...

The all-male autonomous community, known in Greek as Agion Oros, or Holy Mountain, is no stranger to non-Greeks. Of its 20 monasteries, one is Russian, one is Bulgarian and one is Serbian ...

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 ...