14 August, 2015
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Meteora, the word means: roughly, midair, in Greek.
It's a special
place that does seem to hang in the sky. It's a sanctuary of harmony and
quietness that can be found in the region of Thessaly (an ancient Aeolia)
mentioned in Homer's Odyssey.
For nearly a
thousand years, spiritual seekers and monastics have sought to link their lives
to the divine by climbing atop the massive 400-meter-high platforms of stone
that rise to the clouds.
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Clouds often
fill the valley of the Pineios River below, andthe tips of the mountains
seem to float on top of the fog like ships in a harbor.
There are six
Meteora monasteries, all in the same area. They were built on natural
sandstone rock pillars, in the 14th, 15th, and 16th centuries.
But until the
1920s the only way up to the monastery was to put up many
ladders or large nets, until steps were built into the rock.
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The process that
created the Meteora outcroppings is not perfectly understood.
It is believed
that these very strange formations of rock were formed about 60 million years
ago and humans moved in around probably 50,000 years ago.
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