Friends amazing monastery !!! Meteora (Greek: ΜετωΩρα) is one of the largest monastery complexes in Greece, famous primarily for its unique location on the tops of rocks.

Rocks consisting of a mixture of sandstone and clastic rock and reaching a height of 600 m above sea level, in the mountains of Thessaly in northern Greece, in the north of the noma Trikala, 1-2 km north of the city of Kalambaka. They have been known since the X century, along with Mount Athos, as one of the centers of Orthodox monasticism in Greece. In 1988, the monasteries located on the tops of the rocks were included in the list of World Heritage Sites. In church-canonical terms, monastic settlements belong to the Metropolia of Stagi and Meteor of the Church of Greece. The rocks were formed more than 60 million years ago and were the rocky bottom of a prehistoric sea that was located on the site of the plain. An interesting fact: Until the 20s of the XX century, when roads were laid to the monasteries and stone steps were made for climbing, monks and visitors could get to the monasteries only by hanging wooden ladders, or with the help of monks who lifted them in special grids (and in the first centuries of the complex's existence, monks used solid forests of beams, fastened in the crevices of rocks). The ascent took more than half an hour; the nets sometimes broke