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 ...

It was then, from 1356 to 1372, that the first Great Meteoron Monastery was born. Meteora means “suspended in the air,” and the way the religious house clung dangerously to the formidable peak ...

The biggest, oldest and highest of the half-dozen monasteries of Meteora is Great Meteoron. It was established, brick by laborious brick, during the 14th century by scholar monk Athanasios and his ...

The pick of the six is the Great Meteoron Monastery, which is the highest and ... Visit Atlas Obscura for more on Meteora. Photo: Gabriel/Creative Commons ...

The monasteries of Meteora, Greece, are marvels of engineering ... and five other functioning clifftop monasteries (of the original 24). The Great Meteoron Monastery houses the skulls of monks ...

The legendary world of Meteora, a place that has few parallels ... and started on the titanic task of erecting the monastery of the Great Meteoron. The local ruler, Ioannis Ures Palaiologos ...

All the monasteries are worth visiting, but perhaps the grandest, after Great Meteoron, is Varlaam ... But it's not all gore at Meteora. There's beauty, too, in abundance, y, , in the crucifixion ...