Meteora: Greece's Mystical Sky High Monastery

The Meteora is a stone development in the local unit of Trikala, in Thessaly, in northwestern Greece, facilitating one of the biggest and most sharply fabricated buildings of Eastern Conventional cloisters, second in significance just to Mount Athos. The six (of a unique 24) religious communities are based on tremendous regular points of support and slope like adjusted stones that overwhelm the neighborhood. Between the thirteenth and fourteenth hundreds of years, the 24 religious communities were laid out on the rocks. Meteora is situated close to the town of Kalabaka at the northwestern edge of the Plain of Thessaly close to the Pineios waterway and Pindus Mountains.
Meteora was added to the UNESCO World Legacy Rundown in 1988 in light of the extraordinary engineering and magnificence of the complicated, notwithstanding its strict and creative importance.
The name signifies "grand", "raised", and is etymologically connected with meteor.