Greek monks were trying to build monasteries in places that were hidden or difficult to access in order to protect them from ...

Greece, Cyclades, Amorgos Island: Monastery of Panagia Hozoviotissa. Source: Getty Images/Andia/Universal Images Group During the last few years, Amorgos is home for Semeli Drymonitis, who is a ...

far better to spend the day hiking up to Amorgos’s most photographed landmark – the starkly white Panagia Hozoviotissa monastery, which clings to the island’s sheer eastern cliffs – and ...