Former convents and monasteries are a popular choice for many ... Monastero Santa Rosa, poised spectacularly on the cliffs of the Amalfi Coast, has transformed from a 17th-century monastery ...

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With its glorious mountains, idyllic villages and spectacular ancient monasteries ... with a soaring steeple in a vast canyon ringed with cliffs. Yet more "dumbfounding" was the monastery of ...

The town is situated at the foot of sandstone cliffs and pinnacles that rise ... in the 11th century because of its remoteness; monasteries followed. The area is known as Meteora.