Ancient Cultures | Meteora
“Meteora first attracted monks and hermits escaping persecution a millennium ago…Six inhabited monasteries and eighteen others in ruins, dot the peaks of huge, fantastically misshapen rock pillars reaching skyward from the Thessalian valley floor. The region would be a huge draw on the physical force of geology alone. And when you crown these pillars with exquisite, functioning monasteries perched like cliff top sentries in defiance of gravity and in celebration of vertigo, you have a truly otherworldly combination.”
– John F. L. Ross,
Meteora on the Rocks