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Olive and pomegranate trees, inside the David Gareji monastery complex in southern Georgia

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View of a Winter Landscape from a Monastery by Wilhelm Steuerwaldt

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Meteora Monasteries

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📍Meteora,Greece 🇬🇷

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geoffroy setting fire to a monastery

illustrations for a german version of the melusine tale ("geschichte von der schönen melusina" by thüring von ringoltingen), basel, c. 1471

source: Basel, Universitätsbibl., O I 18, fol. 42v

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Geghard Monastery. All photos from Wikimedia.

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📍Meteora monasteries,Greece 🇬🇷

Epic view at Meteora Monasteries in Greece!

One of the greatest monuments of the world, protected by UNESCO and characterized by it as "A Preserved and characterized by it as "A Preserved and Protected Monument of Humanity",

Meteora is the most important (after Aghios Oros) monastic center in Greece. The first ascetics came here in the 11th century.

Meteora, however, flourished as a monastic center between the 13th and 14th century as many people who lived in the nearby areas embraced the monastic way of living…

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Καλημέρα Ελλάδα!!!

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The Irish in Europe

St Columbanus, inspired by St Colm Cille’s example, a generation later, travelled across Europe, founding monasteries as he went. The last of these was erected in Bobbio, northern Italy, in AD 613. Thus, even as the pagan tribes of northern Europe were still rampaging across the continent, the Christianity, learning and Latin-based literacy that had been nurtured in the relative peace and…

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A hot afternoon at Natlismtsemeli Monastery, Georgia

Taken March 2025

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San Giorgio Monastery | Monty Don's Adriatic Gardens: Venice

For 800 years, this was the monastery of San Giorgio Maggiore until Napoleon dissolved it and it gradually fell into disrepair. It was restored in 1951 by the local businessman Vittori Cini, to become a centre of art and culture in memory of his son who had been killed in a plane crash. The church and the Benedictine monastery were built in the late 16th century from designs by the famous architect Andrea Palladio.

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📍Meteora Monasteries Greece 🇬🇷

Floating monasteries, towering rock pillars, and sunsets that take your breath away.

Welcome to Meteora, Greece where nature and history create pure magic! Would you explore this otherworldly place?

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Monasteries