The oldest and largest of all the monasteries of Meteora is the Great Meteoron Monastery, otherwise called the Holy Monastery of the Metamorphosis. It is an all-male monastery and is built on the ...

Soon, 24 monasteries dotted the heights of the plain of Thessaly, with the Great Meteoron ... (Holy Trinity) is more difficult with 140 steps carved directly in sheer rock. The most accessible ...

The Great Meteoron Monastery houses the skulls of monks who lived there, along with vibrant paintings and the church’s 14th-century bread oven. Most of the churches were damaged by waves of ...

The Holy Monastery of Varlaam is the second largest ... the most difficult to reach being the Great Meteoron. But once you arrive, it is easy to understand why the first hermits were so determined ...

I start catching glimpses of the monastery above ... six are still functioning: the Great Meteoron (Metamorphosis), Varlaam, St. Nicholas Anapafsas, Agia Triada (Holy Trinity), Rousanou and ...