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Natural PlacesSite Name: MetéoraCountry: Greece
NOTE: This site is 59.987 km away from the location you searched for.
Region: Northern Greece Type: Natural Stone / Erratic / Other Natural Feature
Nearest Town: Kalambaka Nearest Village: Kastrakion
Latitude: 39.716562N Longitude: 21.629319E
Condition:
5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
0 | No data. |
-1 | Completely destroyed |
5 | Superb |
4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
2 | Not Good |
1 | Awful |
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5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
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5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
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5km south of Metéora lie the Theopetra caves which were inhabited 20.000 years ago. Metéora is one of the most extraordinary landscapes of the world. The large stone pillars forms a kind of stone forest, some of the rocks are more than 120m tall. In the 9th century orthodox monks built hermitages in and on the top of the rocks. Later they built 26 monasteries, today 6 monasteries are left and could be visited. Many caves could be found with human remains like wodden ladders and lifts. The Metéora rocks are a UNSECO World Heritage site.
The Journal of Antiquities includes an entry for this site - see their page for Meteora, Plain Of Thessaly, Greece, which focuses on the "Christian enclave where in 950 AD Barnabas and his fellow hermits came to live in inaccessible rock-hewn caves and, later, in 1350 the first hermitage was established on Dupiani Rock by the monk, Nilos … There were twenty-four monasteries in all between the 14th and 16th centuries but today only six are still inhabited". The Journal also includes a list of reference sources for more information.
For more information about the rock towers, start at Meteora, a unique place in Greece.
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