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Summer Postcards 2011

By Jessica C. Salley
Soaring over the Thessalian town of Kalabaka is the monastic community of Meteora, whose name derives from the Greek for “suspended in the air.” Meteora includes six religious complexes; four are occupied by monks and two are home to nuns. Though the fissures in the rocks of Meteora were home to ascetic monks as early as the 9th century, the first monastery was built in the 14th century to protect the monks from upheaval in the declining Byzantine Empire.
Soaring over the Thessalian town of Kalabaka is the monastic community of Meteora, whose name derives from the Greek for “suspended in the air.” Meteora includes six religious complexes; four are occupied by monks and two are home to nuns. Though the fissures in the rocks of Meteora were home to ascetic monks as early as the 9th century, the first monastery was built in the 14th century to protect the monks from upheaval in the declining Byzantine Empire.

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