{"id":14647,"date":"2026-05-24T23:25:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T23:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/?p=14647"},"modified":"2026-10-16T06:44:20","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T06:44:20","slug":"meteora-kloster-thessalien-griechenland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/de\/greece\/thessaly\/meteora-monasteries-thessaly-greece\/","title":{"rendered":"Meteora-Kl\u00f6ster, Thessalien, Griechenland"},"content":{"rendered":"

Meteora is a group of huge rock pillars of sandstone and conglomerate rising above the town of Kalambaka and the village of Kastraki in Thessaly. They were shaped over millions of years by water, wind and frost, and the name means \u201csuspended in the air\u201d. Hermits lived in caves in the rock from about the 11th century, and in the 14th century the monk Athanasios from Mount Athos founded the Great Meteoron, the first of the large monasteries on the summits. At their peak in the 16th century there were 24 monasteries, and Meteora has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1988.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jahrhundertelang erreichte man die Kl\u00f6ster nur \u00fcber Leitern oder in Netzen, die mit Seilen und Winden hochgezogen wurden; erst in den 1920er-Jahren wurden Stufen in den Fels gehauen. Sechs Kl\u00f6ster sind heute f\u00fcr Besucher ge\u00f6ffnet: das Gro\u00dfe Meteoron, Varlaam, Rousanou, Agios Nikolaos Anapafsas, Agia Triada (Heilige Dreifaltigkeit) und Agios Stefanos, seit 1961 ein Nonnenkloster. Im Inneren gibt es freskengeschm\u00fcckte Kirchen, alte Refektorien und kleine Museen, und die Terrassen blicken \u00fcber die Felsen und die thessalische Ebene.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Entry to each monastery costs \u20ac5, paid in cash at the gate, and children up to 12 enter free. Each monastery closes one day a week, and the days differ between summer and winter: in summer the Great Meteoron is closed on Tuesday, Varlaam and St Nicholas on Friday, Rousanou on Wednesday, Holy Trinity on Thursday and St Stephen on Monday. Most open around 9:00 and close between 13:30 and 17:00, so check the current hours before you go. Women should wear a skirt below the knee and cover their shoulders, men need long trousers, and wrap-around skirts are available at the entrances.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Zum Gro\u00dfen Meteoron und nach Agia Triada f\u00fchren mehr als 300 Stufen, nach Varlaam, Rousanou und Agios Nikolaos etwa 140, und Agios Stefanos erreicht man \u00fcber eine kurze Br\u00fccke. Zwei oder drei Kl\u00f6ster ergeben einen angenehmen Tag, und markierte Fu\u00dfwege f\u00fchren auch von Kastraki und Kalambaka hinauf. Am fr\u00fchen Morgen und in der Stunde vor Sonnenuntergang ist das Licht weicher, und an den Aussichtspunkten stehen weniger Reisebusse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kalambaka is about 350 km from Athens, a drive of four to five hours. Since the storms of 2023 there has been no direct train to Kalambaka, and the last section from Palaiofarsalos has been run by bus, so check the current Hellenic Train connection; KTEL buses from Athens go via Trikala. The monasteries are 5\u201310 km above Kalambaka, about 15 minutes by car or taxi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Die sechs Meteora-Kl\u00f6ster stehen auf Sandsteins\u00e4ulen \u00fcber Kalambaka; jedes kostet 5 \u20ac, hat einen Ruhetag pro Woche und verlangt bedeckte Schultern und Knie.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14687,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1110,977,985,1027,211,981,1077],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-thessaly","category-architecture","category-churches","category-greece","category-parks","category-sights","category-unesco-heritage"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14647"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17129,"href":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14647\/revisions\/17129"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}