Roussánou Monastery in Metéora, Thessaly, Greece (@ age fotostock/Superstock)
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- In the 9th century, monks scaled these pinnacles to live an ascetic lifestyle.""When they eventually settled down, they decided they liked it at the top
- An order of nuns now lives here.""Lace up your hiking boots and pay them a visit
- Traveling to these monasteries used to require rigorous climbing.""And, until the 1920s, sometimes a hoist of faith
- The name of the complex of monasteries in this region shares origins with the word “meteorite.”""Where are these treasures “suspended in the air”?
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