Greece Travel: Meteora
 The Monasteries of Meteora |
| One of the most amazing places in Greece,
if not the world is Meteora. If you have seen pictures of Greece or spend
any time looking through travel brochures then you have certainly been
impressed by the monasteries perched on top of enormous rocks and have
probably wondered how on earth they built them. The rocks themselves are
impressive, rising from the plains of Thessaly a few miles northwest of
Kalambaka. In fact the producers of James Bond found them so impressive
that they had Roger Moore (or his stunt double most likely) climb the stone
face of one in the movie For Your Eyes Only. Nowdays these
rock faces are climbed by professional and amatuers looking for a challenge
and what Paros is to wind-surfers, Meteora is to rock-climbers.
Many of the old Photos I have used come from an out of print book titled simply Greece. The book was published by Hill and Wang in 1961 and is an amazing photographic record of Greece in the fifties. Look for it in your local used bookstore. The cool thing about Meteora is that it does not look any different now than it did when the pictures were taken except for about a million tourists passing through each year. In fact I took the color photos and made them black and white just so they would fit in and I can't tell the difference. I am even more indebted to this book since this front picture was also used for Is This It my first 45 released in 1984 -Matt Barrett |
The Monasteries |
Getting to Meteora |
Hotels in Meteora |
Around Meteora |
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