Tag: "Monasteries"
Mount Athos , Greece
Mount Athos is a mountain on the Holy Mountain peninsula in northern Greece. The peninsula political status in Greece is known as the Autonomous Monastic State of the Holy Mountain. Mount Athos , World Heritage Site , is home to 20 Eastern Orthodox monasteries, 12 skites, and about 700 houses, cells, or hermitages and forms [...]
Meteora , Greece
The Meteora , located in Greece , is one of the most important complex of Eastern Orthodox monasteries , and second largest after Mount Athos. The six monasteries are built on natural sandstone rock pillars, at the northwestern edge of the Plain of Thessaly near the Pineios river and Pindus Mountains . The Meteora is [...]
Mosteiro dos Jeronimos | Jeronimos Monastery
Mosteiro dos Jeronimos also called Jeronimos Monastery , located in Lisbon , capital of Portugal , is a magnificent monastery and one of the most important monuments in Lisbon built in Manueline style . The monastery was populated by monks of the Order of Saint Jerome (Hieronymites), whose spiritual job was to give guidance to [...]
