Monastery · Thessaly
St Stephen's Monastery, Meteora
St Stephen's is the Holy Monastery of St Stephen the Protomartyr, a working Orthodox convent on the southeastern rocks of Meteora in the Municipality of Meteora, Thessaly.
1 km in a straight line
Greece•Town
Kalambaka
Kalambaka is a town in Thessaly and the seat of the Municipality of Meteora, whose own pages name the Meteora rocks, a UNESCO World Heritage site, as the town's main sight. XTOUR lists the six Meteora monasteries, which stand on the Meteora rocks in the Municipality of Meteora, as places reached from Kalambaka rather than places in the town.
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Greece
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Town
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Monastery · Thessaly
Holy Trinity Monastery, Meteora
The Holy Trinity Monastery (Agia Triada) is a working Orthodox monastery on a large rock of Meteora, northwest of St Stephen's, in the Municipality of Meteora, Thessaly.
1 km in a straight line
Monastery · Thessaly
Roussanou Monastery
Roussanou is the Holy Monastery of Roussanou and St Barbara, a working Orthodox convent on a sheer rock of Meteora in the Municipality of Meteora, Thessaly, beside the road from Kalambaka and Kastraki to the monasteries.
2 km in a straight line
Monastery · Thessaly
St Nicholas Anapafsas Monastery
St Nicholas Anapafsas is a working Orthodox monastery on a narrow rock of Meteora near the village of Kastraki, in the Municipality of Meteora, Thessaly.
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Monastery · Thessaly
Varlaam Monastery
Varlaam is the Holy Monastery of All Saints, a working Orthodox monastery on a rock of Meteora in the Municipality of Meteora, Thessaly, named after the hermit Varlaam who, by tradition, first settled the rock in the 14th century.
2 km in a straight line
Monastery · Thessaly
Great Meteoron Monastery
The Great Meteoron is the Holy Monastery of the Transfiguration of the Saviour, a working Orthodox monastery on a rock of Meteora in the Municipality of Meteora, Thessaly, which its own website dates to about 1340.
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Guides to Kalambaka
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Travel Guide01
Visiting the Meteora monasteries
Six of the Meteora monasteries are working communities that admit visitors, each on its own schedule and with its own weekly closing day. This guide sets out what each one is, who publishes the visiting rules, where the official pages disagree, and what XTOUR does not know.
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Travel Guide02
Greece travel guide: choosing mainland and island bases
XTOUR plans Greece around towns and islands rather than regions: Athens, Thessaloniki, Kalambaka, Delphi, Nafplio, Ioannina, Heraklion, Chania, Santorini, Mykonos, Rhodes and Corfu Town. This guide says what each base is for, which sites are reached from a base rather than inside it, and which XTOUR guide takes over for each of them.
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Travel Guide03
Greek letters on signs, and why Greek places have several spellings
Greek road and street signs are written in the Greek alphabet, with a Latin-letter line where appropriate, and the official romanization is the Greek standard ELOT 743. This article shows how the letters convert, why one town can appear as Kalambaka, Kalampaka or Kalabaka and one city as Heraklion, Iraklion or Irakleio, and where the official sources disagree.
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Travel Guide04
Greek Orthodox monasteries as visits: communities, monuments and closed areas
A Greek monastery can be a living community that sets its own visiting hours, a Byzantine monument run by the state's archaeological service, a church inside a wider archaeological site, or part of the self-governed monastic area of Mount Athos. This article explains how each kind of visit works, who publishes its rules, and what XTOUR does not know.
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Destination information last verified: October 9, 2026
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