Meteora, building on the summit of Stone Mountain Athos, Greece

How a monastery was built on the hill hundreds of years ago seems to be a question you when visiting Meteora, a wonderful place to visit in Greece. Enjoy the spectacular scenery that you can see from the height of the rock.

This is a complex of Eastern Orthodox monasteries of the largest and most important in Greece. Exactly, the monasteries were built in stone mountain Athos.

The monasteries are looked beautiful to many of the hill crowned. Red roof tiles contrast with the walls of the cliff that dull gray . View from the hill towards a full lowland trees, ravines and villages – was incredibly beautiful, so Meteora referred to as one of the most enchanting places on earth.

See these images, you must be amazed. How can a castle can stand on top of the mountain rock. Imagine how difficult the construction of this castle, but he was already hundreds of years.

There are six monasteries in this complex. Precisely located in the region of Thessaly, near the river Pineios, northwestern Greece edge Tengah.Yang quite interesting is access to the monastery which is very difficult. That said, once the monastery used to achieve a kind of response or long nets used to raise and lower goods, including humans. It takes the power of faith to be able to reach this monastery.

In the monastery there is a lot of old icons, wall paintings, gilded wood carvings and many other ancient objects of high value. Unfortunately during World War II, the Nazis destroyed many antique and historic monasteries, so the ancient monastery of the 24 only six are still inhabited and used as a museum

At first the monks in the 11th century AD to alienate themselves by inhabiting caves / niche dilereng steep hills, whose height reached 50 meters. Later, in the 15th century, before the priests built many monasteries dipuncak steep hills very difficult to reach it. To get out of the monastery can only be a rope ladder up the dikerek basket from above with a rope.

That’s Meteora, which are far away amid the Greek mainland. Rock ridge at the foot of the mountains of Pindos it appears as if a set of towering giant stalagmite grew sticking out from the valley floor Thessalian

Visiting the monasteries are now no longer difficult because roads have been built into the hills of Meteora, and also has made ​​the ladder on the cliff wall so visitors bias rise above the hill until you reach the monastery buildings. Meteora also been designated as Unesco’s World Heritage, and now millions of domestic and foreign tourists coming to Meteora was said One of the Most Amazing Places in Greece or One of the Most Spectacular Places to visit in Greece.