Megalo Meteoro Monastery

The idiom "Sky Pavilion" is probably known to everyone, but witnessing the sky church with your own eyes may not be possible, even for tourists who have been to Greece. Chinese tourists are more likely to board the island of Creek or hang on the Aegean Sea, and the Meteora Monastery in the central hinterland of Greece. Few Chinese tourists visit. "Meteora" in Greek means "hanging in the air", which is the difference between many of Meteora's monasteries.

The city of the sky, known as the Yellow Mountains of Greece, is famous for six medieval monasteries built on cliffs and bald stones, and has been listed in the World Heritage List for hundreds of years. The building is magnificent and well preserved, with many ancient statue murals and artifacts such as sheepskin scrolls.

The Greek Aegean Sea and Athens are many monuments, and the sky city in the middle of Medeola is very little known, but it is also a beautiful scenery. The monks built a monastery on the top of the boulders, forming a sky city.

Meteora is listed on the World Natural and Cultural Heritage List, about 370 km from Athens. Meteora means "hanging in the air" in Greek, and Meteora is one of the most important buildings of the Greek Orthodox Church and the most famous and spectacular building of Meteora. The monastery was built in the 14th century, on the highest rocky mountain in the valley, at 613 meters above sea level, and the unique church is built on high cliffs, cloudy or foggy like floating in the sky, and the scene after winter snow is even more unique. So it is like a scene from Miyazaki's film, which enjoys the reputation of "City of the Sky". It was once funded by the Serbian emperor and has a mural called "The St. Mary's Memory" showing the persecution of Christians by the Romans.

Sister Medeola. 18-year-old girl came here to pray for 4 years before she could become a nun. The murals inside are really super beautiful, each is a Greek story, favorite The Judgment of the Doom. Because photography is not allowed in the monastery, we open selfie mode in the yard.

Before going to Greece, friends recommended that you must go to the Sky Monastery (Medeola Monastery), which is at the apex of huge mountain rocks. On the almost inaccessible peaks, monks have been practicing on these steep peaks like pillars since the 11th century. In the 15th century, the hermits selected these "pillars of the sky" and built twenty-four monasteries. These monasteries are also known as Sky Monastery. Medeola Monastery was listed in the World Heritage List in 1988, and the monastery maintains ancient features, with ancient statue murals, sheepskin scrolls and other ancient artifacts. We visited the largest monastery, the passage from the mountainside has reduced the steepness, but the construction of such a scale on the mountain is really breathtaking! The monastery has a museum, a wine workshop, and a beautiful main hall (photographing is prohibited). Although the monastery's wine workshop is now only for display, there are wines for sale in the monastery souvenir shop. I bought a bottle of red wine and it tasted good.

The seclusion of the Medeola monastery is for inner practice only. It had a rustic appearance, a luxurious interior, if not personally there, how could it gently remove her veil, he was also the largest and largest of the many monasteries of Medeaola, and the one at the highest, with a kingly style.