Meteora
Also known as Μετέωρα
1356
Byzantine
landscape
Meteora is a cluster of Orthodox monasteries set on top of vertical sandstone pinnacles that rise abruptly from the plain of Thessaly above Kalambaka. Hermits settled the rocks from the 11th century, and the organized monastic life began…
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- 1527
Theophanis Strelitzas, called Bathas, frescoed St Nicholas Anapausas in the Cretan school manner.
- 1541-1566
Varlaam's katholikon was built in 1541-1542, painted in 1548, and its esonarthex decorated in 1566.
- 1560
Roussanou's katholikon, founded in the mid-16th century, received its fresco program in 1560.
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