The Monastery of Paleokastro (or "Old Castle") is an 18th-century nunnery on a verdant hill near the village of Ano Mera. It provides a respite from the bustling environment of Mykonos proper ...

In Greece's urban areas, house prices rose by 7.29% in Q3 2024 from a year earlier, following year-on-year increases of 9.24% in Q2 2024, 10.84% in Q1 2024, 12.58% in Q4 2023 and 13.28% in Q3 2023, ...

The magnitude 6.8 quake reduced to rubble roofs and walls at a monastery and a nunnery about 15 km east of the epicentre in Tingri county, China Tibet Online reported on Sunday (Jan 12).

(AFP/representative) The magnitude 6.8 quake reduced to rubble roofs and walls at a monastery and a nunnery about 15 km (nine miles) east of the epicentre in Tingri county, China Tibet Online ...

Credit: Giwtavr /Wikimedia Commons/ CC BY-SA 4.0 Located on the Greek island of Chios is another treasure from Greece’s long history, now listed on UNESCO’s World Heritage List. Nea Moni, or “New ...

西藏一个星期前突发强烈地震，导致至少100多人死亡和大量房屋倒塌及严重财产损失。但是官方并未公布地震中寺庙损坏和僧侣伤亡情况。近日外界 ...

Pico Iyer’s latest book is Aflame: Learning from Silence. To get to the Monastery of Christ in the Desert, just past Georgia O’Keefe’s Ghost Ranch in northern New Mexico, you have to bump ...

Called Lalys by locals, a mispronunciation of "al-Aziz", he is credited with building a number of monasteries, castles, and churches, including Neath Abbey in south Wales, today the country’s ...

One of the most amazing accomplishments of Byzantine monasteries is the miraculous preservation of ancient Greek knowledge and literature, treasures of ancient wisdom without which our world would ...