While the tourist season typically bookends from Easter to the onset of autumn in most parts of the country, Kalymnos defies convention.

The holy icon of Panagia Soumela, located in the homonymous Holy Church in Vermio, northern Greece, is the symbol of Hellenism in Pontus.

With the ongoing calls to boycott Turkey and Azerbaijan, many travelers are reconsidering their vacation plans and looking ...

MOUNT ATHOS, Greece (AP) — The medieval monastery clings almost impossibly to sheer cliffs high above the shimmering ...

The medieval monastery clings almost impossibly to sheer cliffs high above the shimmering turquoise of the Aegean Sea.

The Monastery of Simonos Petra clings almost impossibly to a sheer cliff above the Aegean Sea in northern Greece.

Perched on a cliffside above the Aegean Sea, the Monastery of Simonos Petra is home to one of Orthodoxy’s most diverse ...

Mount Athos, a verdant peninsula in northern Greece, has been a center of Christian Orthodox monasticism for more than 1,000 ...

Clinging almost impossibly to a sheer cliff in northern Greece, the Monastery of Simonos Petra, also known as Simonopetra — ...

Father Isaiah, born in Vietnam to Chinese refugee parents, uses a crane to lift supplies at Simonopetra, or the Simonos Petra ...

Syrian, poses for a portrait at Simonopetra, or the Simonos Petra Monastery, home of the all-male autonomous community Agion ...

The monastery is one of 20 in the autonomous all-male monastic community of Mount Athos, known in Greek as Agion Oros, or ...