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Meteora is an area in Thessaly (Central Greece) and Kalampaka is the city under the rock towers of Meteora. The thing that makes

Meteora so special is the monasteries on the top of the rock towers. The monasteries, the amound of peaks to climb and the paths for

hiking brings in Meteora the whole year many tourists.

The prevailing theory about Meteora creation, is that one of the German geologist Philipson, who came to Greece in the late 19th

century. According to his theory, a large river had his estuary in this area which for million of years was covered by a narrow and deep

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part of the sea .The river waters place matter, stones and generally several materials that were transferred by its waters at the estuary

from Northern parts of primordial central Europe. From the accumulation of these materials deltaic cones were formed.

During the tertiary period ,at the time of the alpine orogenies, the solid volumes of the rocks were cut off from the mountain chain of

Pindos that was created and as the centuries went by, the plain of Pinios river was formed between them.

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Today, the tradition of Orthodoxy is continued uninterrupted for over 600 years by the Holy Monastery of the Great Meteoro or (the

Transfiguration of Jesust), the Varlaam Monastery, the Saint Stephen Monastery, the Holy Trinity Monastery, the Saint Nicolas Anapafsas

Monastery and the Roussano Monastery. All these monasteries are on the top of Meteora rocks.

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