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Meteora is a rock formation, a mixture of sandstone and conglomerate, with an average altitude of 313 meters, which rise outside of Kalampaka in the prefecture of Trikala, in Thessaly, Greece.
The tough access and the wild landscape were a suitable place for Christian monks, so, in the long run, 30 monasteries were created on the tops of some rocks and this is one of the largest and most precipitously built complexes of Eastern Orthodox monasteries, second in importance only to Mount Athos.
In 1989 Unesco included Meteora in the list of World Heritage Sites, as a cultural and natural asset of special importance.
The filmmaker gives us a panoramic view of the geological phenomenon of these giant rocks, while in the background we can see the village of Kastraki on the outskirts of Meteora.
We see a large panoramic shot, from another angle ending up at the top of the rock that houses the Monastery of St. Nikolaos Anapafsa, which the filmmaker show us with a zoom-in shot. The panoramic view continues and we see another zoom-in shot with the Barlaam Monastery on its rock.
The tough access and the wild landscape were a suitable place for Christian monks, so, in the long run, 30 monasteries were created on the tops of some rocks and this is one of the largest and most precipitously built complexes of Eastern Orthodox monasteries, second in importance only to Mount Athos.
In 1989 Unesco included Meteora in the list of World Heritage Sites, as a cultural and natural asset of special importance.
The filmmaker gives us a panoramic view of the geological phenomenon of these giant rocks, while in the background we can see the village of Kastraki on the outskirts of Meteora.
We see a large panoramic shot, from another angle ending up at the top of the rock that houses the Monastery of St. Nikolaos Anapafsa, which the filmmaker show us with a zoom-in shot. The panoramic view continues and we see another zoom-in shot with the Barlaam Monastery on its rock.
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