Meteora
The monastery-crowned pillars of Meteora are among the most striking geological and cultural gems of Greece. The formation consists of a number of steep and narrow rock pinnacles near the town of Kalambaka in northwestern Thessaly, topped with a total of 24 monasteries, 6 of which are still in use and open to visitors.
- Region
- …lies at an elevation of 420 metres (1,378 feet)
- …is also known as “Meteora monasteries”
- Description: rock formation with cluster of Greek Orthodox monasteries
Places of Interest
Highlights include Holy Monastery of Great Meteoron and Monastery of the Holy Trinity, Meteora.
Monastery of the Holy Trinity, Meteora
Monastery
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kalambaka and Kastraki.
Meteora
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- Location
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Latitude
39.7218° or 39° 43′ 19″ north
Longitude
21.6305° or 21° 37′ 50″ east
Open location code
8GF3PJCJ+P6
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yoruba—“Meteora” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Meteora”
- Albanian: “Meteora”
- Arabic: “ميتيورا”
- Armenian: “Մետեորա”
- Azerbaijani: “Meteora”
- Basque: “Meteora”
- Belarusian: “Манастыры Метэоры”
- Belarusian: “Мэтэора”
- Bulgarian: “Метеора”
- Burmese: “မီတီအိုရာ”
- Catalan: “Els Meteors”
- Chinese: “迈泰奥拉”
- Chinese: “迈泰奥拉修道院”
- Croatian: “Meteora”
- Czech: “Meteora”
- Danish: “Meteora”
- Dutch: “Meteora (kloosters)”
- Dutch: “Meteora”
- Esperanto: “Meteora”
- Finnish: “Meteora”
- Finnish: “Metéora”
- French: “Météores”
- French: “monastères des Météores”
- French: “Monastères des Météores”
- Galician: “Meteora, Grecia”
- Galician: “Meteora”
- Georgian: “მეტეორა”
- Georgian: “მეტეორას მონასტრები”
- German: “Meteora”
- Greek: “Μετέωρα”
- Greek: “Μοναστήρια των Μετεώρων”
- Hebrew: “מטאורה”
- Hindi: “मेतेओरा”
- Hungarian: “Meteorák”
- Ido: “Meteora”
- Indonesian: “Meteora”
- Italian: “Meteora”
- Italian: “Monasteri di Meteora”
- Japanese: “メテオラ”
- Kannada: “ಮಿಟಿ ಓರ”
- Kazakh: “Метеора монастырлары”
- Kazakh: “Метеора”
- Korean: “메테오라”
- Latin: “Meteora”
- Latvian: “Meteora”
- Lithuanian: “Meteoros”
- Luxembourgish: “Meteora-Kléischter”
- Luxembourgish: “Meteorakléischter”
- Macedonian: “Метеора”
- Malayalam: “മെറ്റെയോറ”
- Maltese: “Meteora”
- Maltese: “Monasteri ta’ Meteora”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “meteora”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Metéora”
- Norwegian: “Meteora”
- Persian: “متئورا”
- Persian: “متورا”
- Polish: “Meteory”
- Portuguese: “Metéora”
- Romanian: “Meteora”
- Romanian: “Sfânta Meteora”
- Russian: “Метеора”
- Russian: “Монастыри Метеоры”
- Serbian: “Метеори”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Meteora”
- Slovak: “Meteora”
- Slovenian: “Meteora”
- Spanish: “Meteora”
- Swedish: “Meteora”
- Tatar: “Метеора кәшишханәләре”
- Turkish: “Meteora Manastırları”
- Turkish: “Meteora”
- Ukrainian: “Метеора”
- Vietnamese: “Metéora”
- Waray (Philippines): “Meteora”
- Western Frisian: “Meteora”
- Western Panjabi: “مٹیورا”
- Yakut: “Метеора”
- Yoruba: “Meteora”
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