Mount Athos is home to twenty monasteries where only monks are allowed to live and only males are allowed to visit, women are banned.

Athens and Cairo have agreed to preserve the status of the historic St. Catherine’s Monastery in Sinai, the world’s oldest ...

Eco-friendly trekking in the Himalayas advances maintainable travel by minimizing natural effects and supporting neighborhood communities.

This national park is one of the largest in India and is home to a variety of wildlife, including tigers, leopards, elephants, and red pandas. The park is also a great place for birdwatching. This ...

In the Scriptures, the mountain is symbolic of that quiet place ... Austria — a former Carthusian monastery founded in 1330 — I have come to appreciate the immense value of silence.

For centuries, monks have sought solitude and isolation on their path to spiritual enlightenment, choosing some of the most remote places on the globe to construct their monasteries. Some of these ...

Washington also dished five assists. Mountain schools: This year, with the move to the Big 12, something that looks the same is a little bit different at the same time. And that’s the trip to ...

The BriefThe Monastery of the Holy Spirit is considered the top destination in Rockdale County.The centerpiece of the Monastery is the Abbey Church, which took the monks 15 years to build.The ...

Did you know the Swannanoa Valley had a monastery next to the Municipal Golf Course? Before the nuns were there, former North Carolina Gov. Locke Craig owned both the land that would become the ...

The following story is a tale of philoxenia (hospitality) and beauty in Greece’s Switzerland: the Agrafa mountains. Vasilis Tsantilas, a former mayor of a municipality in the mountainous region of ...

At the Monastery Trail, a sprawling property filled with winding roads and fields, you can almost picture the monks walking the trails contemplatively. What was once a swath of rocky land has ...