This article was produced by National Geographic Traveller (UK). People seeking a spiritual escape often instinctively make for far-flung places: to the ashrams of India, the ayahuasca retreats of the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Baile Mòr is the only village on the island of Iona, a Scottish isle that's drawn travelers for centuries. Ian Masterson, Alamy ...

The Benedictine abbey on the Hebridean island reopens tomorrow after a £3m renovation funded by bake sales and sponsored walks A Christian community on a tiny Hebridean island which for centuries has ...

For me, pilgrimage begins with the Isle of Iona. I started going there with my parents in the earliest days of childhood. We traveled from the heart of landlocked Perthshire: as the crow flies it’s a ...

Hemmed by white sand beaches and a bright blue sea, Scotland's Iona pulses on the Atlantic's horizon, where it has captured the imagination of spiritual seekers for centuries, ever since Irish monk ...