The Great Meteoron Monastery with its red-roofed buildings on top of a sheer rock pillar at Meteora.

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Great Meteoron Monastery

The Great Meteoron Monastery, the Monastery of the Transfiguration of the Saviour, is one of the oldest of the Meteora monasteries and stands 613 m above sea level on a rock above the Pineios valley near Kalabaka. Athanasius the Meteorite founded it in 1356. Visitors reach it by steps cut into the rock and see its church with frescoes and the monastery's buildings.

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