The untamed red-earth landscapes of western Crete float farther ... places in in northwestern Greece. It's known as an incredibly holy place, where ancient Byzantine monasteries were built atop ...

Located between Crete and Karpathos ... and ‘filoxenia’ - the Greek word for hospitality - and is one of Greece’s most remote and southernmost inhabited islands. With a population of ...

The Arkadi Monastery, Crete. Credit: Wikipedia/Olaf Tausch/CC-BY-3.0 This monastery ... and 18th centuries to participating in the Greek War of Independence in 1821. Greece’s spectacular Mount Athos, ...

The capital is a good base from which to explore the east of Georgia, including the magnificent monastery at Mtskheta ... granddaughter and I are in Crete. We are booked to fly home from Heraklion ...

Crete is home to some of the most beautiful beaches in Greece, many of which boast that special kind ... the ancient fortress, and a collection of monasteries. The Archeological Museum in the centre ...

Native to mainland Greece and Crete, it was likely cultivated in ancient Crete at ... which comprises a complex of twenty different monasteries, it was subsequently described as Gnaphalium virgineum, ...

Crete is a perfect place to immerse yourself in a jubilant atmosphere of the Greek Orthodox Easter and experience its unique customs, religious ceremonies, and amazing foods that you can only try in ...

For more than a millennium, Orthodox Christian monks have woken up in the predawn darkness to start their day with prayer at ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. The Monastery of Panagia Hozoviotissa, carved into ...

U.S. supermajor Chevron has expressed interest in oil and gas exploration in two additional offshore blocks south of the Greek island of Crete, Greece’s Ministry of Energy and Environment said ...