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Discover The
Beauty Of meteora
Discover the rituals of Greek Orthodoxy. Meteora is a complex of enormous dark sandstone rocks, well-known for the monasteries that are built on the top of the rocks. Six of the totally thirty monasteries that have historically existed, are on the UNESCO World Heritage List since 1988.If religionand nature interests you, then this 12-hour tour is for you.
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Useful information
Duration: 12 hours
Pickup and drop off point: Your hotel/ accommodation or any other location in Athens
Pickup time: 8am
Essentials:
Voucher (printed or mobile)
Please note that for this tour, a respectful dress code is mandatory. It is important to be appropriately covered and dressed. Men are not allowed to wear sleeveless shirts or above the knee pants. Women are not allowed to enter the monasteries wearing sleeveless shirts, pants or skirts above the knee. In order to meet the dress code, you can borrow for free wrap around skirts and shawls at the entrance of every monastery.
include/exclude
- Pick up and drop off service
- English-speaking driver
- Bottles of sparkling or still water at your availability throughout the tour
- Skip-the-line tickets for all sites and museums – no long entrance queues
- Transportation with our new mini van
- All kind of taxes and fees, such as petrol, tolls & parking
- Tickets to sites and museums
- Personal expenses during the tour
- Tour guide. Available upon request
- Food and beverages. Available upon request
- Gratuity at your own convenience
Great People. Amazing Tours. Beautiful kalabaka.
- Meteora is the second most important site in Greece
- In its peak there were 24 active monasteries in Meteora. Now there are
- Staircases weren’t added to the Meteora monasteries until the 1920s
- A typical day for the monks and nuns involves waking at 4:00 am, 3 hours of praying – both in private and in church, then carrying out assigned duties.
- There are 41 hermitage spots in Meteora, but they are difficult to impossible to find on your own as there are no signs.
- Queen Marie of Romania was the first official woman visitor in 1921
- Meteora appeared in the James Bond film, For Your Eyes Only. Look familar?
- Every rock in Meteora has a name. It made life easier for the locals, just as street names do today.
