What is amazing even more is that there are monasteries on top of the mystical rock formations. A total of 24 monasteries have been built, but only 6 are active now.
We visited two of the active six monasteries.
The first one was Roussanou. Its full name was St. Barbara Roussanou. It is a monastery for the nuns. It was small and we had to quickly come out after a short tour. But the scenery from up there was breathtaking.
Varlaam is the second largest monastery in size and significance. Still a cable car is operating and a pull-up cage is used to transport the supplies. I was lucky to catch the cable car operating in action.
Another monastery that is not open at present but is famous is The Holy Trinity. This was the place where a 007 movie called "Your Eyes Only" was filmed. Roger Moore was James Bond. I looked at the scene on YouTube and I could remember it.
Other monasteries include St. Stephen and Great Meteora, the largest one.
Kalambaka is the town under the Meteora rocks and monasteries.
A baby cat is looking down at people with curiosity. "What are you looking at?"
Until we visited, we did not know anything about Meteora. Travel is indeed education for living. - Jeffrey
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