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 ...

Spain isn’t short on dramatic scenery or dreamy architecture, but some places go beyond beautiful and just feel complete ...

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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 ...

The Benedictine Monastery at Kylemore Abbey by Axo Architects has been revealed as the winner of the prestigious 2025 Royal ...

Greece and Egypt have agreed to safeguard the status of one of the world's oldest sites of Christian worship, foreign ministers of both countries said late on Wednesday, after an Egyptian court ruling ...

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 ...