Trip to Greece: Monasteries at Meteora
The second stop on our trip to Greece was at the Monasteries of Meteora, made famous in the James Bond film For Your Eyes Only. These monasteries are truly amazing, as they are built on top of vertical cliff spires that jut several thousand feet straight into the sky. In case you haven’t seen the movie, here are a couple of clips of the Meteora scenes:
The place is just as ridiculous as it looks in the movie. There are now some small tram cars that serve some of the monasteries, but even those don’t look all that safe. The monasteries follow traditional rules of dress, as Barbara points out below:
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Here’s a few more shots I took on our way through the monasteries. There are quite a few of them, and it’s a wonder how any of them could be built even with today’s technologies, let alone that of a thousand years ago.
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