Greece

This was my main reason for wanting to visit Greece.

Meteora in Greek means “Suspended in the air”!
The impressive beauty of the towering rocks and the monasteries perched on their tops is living proof of our Spiritual and Cultural Heritage.

Theopetra Cave, located in the meteora limestone rock formations in Central Greece, is most likely the place of the oldest human construction on earth, as findings indicate that the cave was inhabited as early as 130 000 years ago.

Meteora is a vast rock formation placed in central Greece. This phenomenon was formed through many series of earth movements which count back to 60 million years ago.
Meteora was formed of deposits of stone, sand, and mud from streams flowing into a delta at the edge of a lake, during the Paleogene period.
The continuous earth movements pushed the seabed upwards, creating a high plateau, causing many vertical fault lines in the thick layer of sandstone.

What makes Meteora’s appearance special, is the uniformity of the sedimentary rock constituents deposited over millions of years leaving few signs of vertical layering, and the localized abrupt vertical

The architecturally elaborate monasteries crown the tops and create a landscape of inimitable beauty. In the 10th century A.D. there were 24 monasteries, only 6 of which are active nowadays. It is a unique landscape and spiritual phenomenon of world-wide significance.

And how “Suspended in the air”? Because of the feeling, you have if you visit a Holy Monastery at a non-crowd time and how the first Monk of Great Meteoron, Osios Athanasios felt when he first time climbed on the rock of “Platis Lithos”. “Between God and Earth” Weiterlesen