Hello, dear friends, nature lovers!
I want to share with you photos from a unique place in Greece and participate in the @AmazingNature contest :)
Once I saw this symbiosis between nature and man in a photo of a girlfriend, I immediately decided that I would go there as soon as I could.
In Greek, Meteora means floating in the air. The name is surprisingly accurate, because this is what the impression is made when looking at the temples.
These rocks, consisting of a mixture of sandstone and broken rock, reach 600 metres above sea level, are located in the mountains of Thessaly in the north of Greece.
Meteors have been known since the 10th century as the center of Orthodox monasticism in Greece. Throughout history, there have been 24 monasteries in the Meteors, and now there are 6 monasteries: 4 men and 2 women. On excursions, the seventh monastery is sometimes mentioned. But this is rather a secluded hermitage, where the only monk has been serving for more than 50 years. Residents say that for all these years he never left his cell and did not go down to the valley.
Monks know how choose beautiful places to build their temples)). But looking at these temples, I still can’t figure out how, how did they build it? For me, it’s a miracle of the world.
How to build in such places and at such a height is a mystery to me.
I think the pyramids were easier to build, even though I’m not a builder and I don’t know much about them. Historians say that it took up to twenty years for monks to raise stones to the top of the rock to build a one monastery.
Nowadays, an ideal road winding between the rocks leads to the monasteries.
And back in the 70s of the 20th century, the first enthusiastic tourists were lifted up to the monasteries by monks using a complex system of ropes, levers, and rearranged scaffolds.
And people were brought to the foot of the monasteries on mules, there were no roads at all.
The nearest large settlement to Meteora is the town of Kalambaka. It stretches right at the foot of the rocks. Small and very cozy.
I apologize in advance for grammatical mistakes, someday I will learn English))