{"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":"monasterios-de-meteora-tesalia-grecia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/es\/greece\/thessaly\/meteora-monasteries-thessaly-greece\/","title":{"rendered":"Monasterios de Meteora, Tesalia, Grecia"},"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

Durante siglos solo se llegaba a los monasterios por escaleras de mano o en redes izadas con cuerdas y cabrestantes; los escalones se tallaron en la roca en la d\u00e9cada de 1920. Hoy seis monasterios est\u00e1n abiertos a los visitantes: el Gran Meteoro, Varlaam, Rousanou, San Nicol\u00e1s Anapafsas, la Sant\u00edsima Trinidad y San Esteban, convento de monjas desde 1961. En su interior hay iglesias con frescos, antiguos refectorios y peque\u00f1os museos, y las terrazas se asoman a los pilares y a la llanura de Tesalia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Informaci\u00f3n para visitantes y consejos de viaje<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

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

Al Gran Meteoro y a la Sant\u00edsima Trinidad se sube por m\u00e1s de 300 escalones, a Varlaam, Rousanou y San Nicol\u00e1s por unos 140, y a San Esteban se accede por un peque\u00f1o puente. Dos o tres monasterios bastan para un d\u00eda c\u00f3modo, y tambi\u00e9n suben senderos se\u00f1alizados desde Kastraki y Kalambaka. A primera hora de la ma\u00f1ana y en la hora antes del atardecer la luz es m\u00e1s suave y hay menos autocares en los miradores.<\/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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Los seis monasterios de Meteora se alzan sobre pilares de arenisca encima de Kalambaka; cada uno cuesta 5 \u20ac, cierra un d\u00eda a la semana y exige hombros y rodillas cubiertos.<\/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\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14647"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17129,"href":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14647\/revisions\/17129"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}