Category: Sites of Historical – Cultural Interest
Points of particular cultural importance, such as historical monuments, traditional settlements, monasteries and myths associated with the place.
The Monastery of St. Stephanos is located at the southeastern end of the cluster of meteoric rocks, just above Kalambaka, and it is the only monastery that can be visited without climbing stairs, because access to it is by a small bridge. The view from the balcony of the monastery…
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Going up to Meteora from the village of Kastraki, just after the chapel of Panagia Dupiani and between the ruined monasteries of Prodromos, Agia Moni and Pantokratoros, the male Monastery of Agios Nikolaos Anapausa is located on its narrow rock, elegant and stately. From the balconies of the monastery the…
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The foundation of the Monastery of the Great Meteor or Metamorphosis was the starting point of organised Meteoric monasticism. This monastery is the oldest, largest and most formal of the existing Meteoric monasteries, as its name "Megalo Meteoro" or simply "Meteoro" indicates. Perched on its imposing rock, it occupies a…
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The Monastery of All Saints, commonly called Varlaam, is built on an imposing rock, at the northwestern end of the Meteora stone town of Meteora and in close proximity to the Great Meteor and the Monastery of Roussanos. Its imposing rock was inhabited for the first time, according to tradition,…
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