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Meteora Rock Formations (Kalambaka)

The Meteora is one of the largest complexes of monasteries in Greece, famous for its unique location on pinnacles. The monk centre was established in about the 10th century and since then has always existed. In 1988, the monasteries were included on the World Heritage List.

The Meteora is located in the Thesally mountains in northern Greece, in the north of the Trikala Prefecture. It is situated in the Pindus Mountain Range near the Pineios River, 1 to 2 kilometres (0.68–1.24 miles) to the north from the city of Kalambaka (former Eginio) and 21 kilometres (13.05 miles) to the north-west from the city of Trikala.

The rocks are up to 600 metres (1,968.5 feet) above sea level and considered to be a rare geological fact. They were formed more than 60 million years ago and were a rocky bottom of a prehistoric sea being in the place of a plain. Continuous weathering by water, wind and extremes of temperature formed huge as if floating rock pillars that got the name of Meteora (translates as "suspended in the air" from the Greek).

This amazing geological phenomenon has been an object of study for many Greek and foreign researches and geologists for a long time. In 1897, Alfred Philippson, a German researcher, gave the most clean-cut explanation of the phenomenon in his book Thessalien und Epirus. He proved that this cluster of high skyward rocks was an estuary of some great river, which for many thousand years had brought its waters to a narrow but deep area of a sea once filling the entire territory of the modern Plain of Thessaly.

A traveler, who admires this wonderful place that is wild and mighty in winter, when the northern wind is whistling between the rocky massifs, or silent and devotional in sunny days, full of mountain odors of wild flowers and new plants that frame rock cracks, feels the insignificance of humans in the infinite and becomes a pilgrim. He is near his Creator now. Around him there is a landscape full of silence and solitude that are broken by birds flying and with a carillon of the monastery bells only. For many centuries this heaven silence coexists with the highest skyward grey rocks that are rich in aeries. And large monasteries, modest churches and now deserted old cells are found at the rock tops.

This is a unique state of monasteries appeared in the grand stony landscape.

This place, at the tops of the highest rocks, between heaven and earth, has been chosen by many hermits to live and be closer to God for the rest of their lives. They abjured the worldly goods and devoted themselves to prayers and spiritual concentration.

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Meteora Rock Formations



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