For centuries, monks have sought solitude and isolation on their path to spiritual enlightenment, choosing some of the most ...

Father Grigorios, a Greek monk lived 38 years, almost alone, in a medieval monastery-fortress on the small Ionian island of ...

The peaceful region has a population of just 11,000, scattered across small villages clinging to the sides of the mountains ...

The men, 22 in all, had taken a bus more than 1,000 km (620 miles) from the Ukrainian city of Lviv to a monastery built on a cliff on the mountainous Athos peninsula in northern Greece ...

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Increased volcanic activity in Greece’s famed tourist hotspot of Santorini has prompted the country’s civil protection ...

The men, 22 in all, had taken a bus more than 1,000 kilometres from the Ukrainian city of Lviv to a monastery built on a cliff on the mountainous Athos peninsula in northern Greece, where they ...

Lake Doxa, in the Peloponnese, is a place of astounding beauty that has been dubbed "the Switzerland of Greece." ...