METEORA

Meteora is from the biggest and most important group of monasteries in Greece after those in Mount Athos.
We can locate the first traces of their history from 11th c. when the first hermits settled there.
The rock monasteries have been characterized by Unesco as a unique phenomenon of cultural heritage
and they form one of the most important stations of cultural map of Greece.


                     

The Holy Monastery of Great Meteoron. It is the biggest of the Meteorite monasteries.
The church 'Katholikon', honoured to the 'Transfiguration' was erected in the middle of 14th c. and 1387/88
and decorated in 1483 and 1552. The old monastery is used as a museum, nowadays.