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 ...

Initial reports that the centuries-old St. Catherine's Monastery would be closed were denied, but Orthodox leaders remain ...

St. Catherine’s lies at the foot of the mountain Christians identify as the biblical Mount Sinai and hosts a vast library that harbors priceless manuscripts and icons. The monastery, whose right ...

Egypt and Greece sought to ease tensions over the historic St Catherine’s monastery in the Sinai peninsula on Friday after a controversial court ruling said it sat on state-owned land.

An appeals court in the Egyptian city of Ismailia has ruled that the monks of St. Catherine’s Monastery in the Sinai Peninsula have the right to use the monastery and surrounding religious ...

Four miles from Walmart down a dirt road sits the Carmel of Mary Monastery in Wahpeton next to the Wild Rice River, which is ...

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 ...