Экскурсии: Метеора

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Meteora

Some hundreds of huge cliffs tower over the city and the village of Kalambaka Kastraki where the legendary river Pilnos leaving slopes Pinda, passes through Fessaliyskuyu plain. Meteora - this unique stone forest, which is pozdnevizantiyskuyu era into the present monastic town. The top of the rock rises above the valley for more than 300m. And the highest of which reaches 549m. The slopes of the pillars, is steep and abrupt, with a smooth surface, it is surprising and puzzling because of their fantastic descent and ascent to the first people.

Regarding the origin of rocks perception that they were born from stones, sand and silt the river that flows in the Kalambaka area of approximately 25 million years ago, when Thessaly, Hasya and Grevena area, were covered by sea. Later the water through the gorge Tembé, went to the Aegean Sea and the vast amount of material at the bottom of the river revealed. After diluting with water, strong winds, rains and earthquakes, they are divided into many hills and rocks of different shapes.

As people boarded the first of these high and bare rocks? On this point there is some agreement: the most probable suggestion, climbing performed using вбитых in the rock wedges, on the other versions use the forest as is done today in the construction of multistory buildings, and finally there is the view that the climb was very high with the help of trees which before rising next to the rocks. When first climbed on rocks and the first ascetic hermits - unknown. According to the information available, organized religion, there is more to the IX century. The first monks lived in sketes - cavities, which are the slopes of the rocks. The first organized center monks Meteor was skit Stagon or Dupyani located in Kastraki. There, the monks gathered each Sunday. It is anticipated that the skit was built around 1660. Subsequently, the monks began to climb on the rocks most likely through forest, where they started with great patience to build the various monasteries. Of the twenty monasteries existed before, today there are only six (4 male and 2 female), the rest are uninhabited and destroyed.

Currently Meteora recognized by UNESCO and other international organizations, a monument of humanity, and to be protected.