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Today we went to Kalampaka to visit the monasteries of Meteora.
It took us quite a bit of time to get there. On the way we also stopped to see the Spring of Aphrodite and the Monastery of Saint Parascheva (RO: Paraschiva). Actually, it seems there was more than one affliction-healing, miracle-performing Saint Parascheva related to this monastery.
Our next important stop was at an icon workshop where we were given a quick demo of how the classical, wooden, gold-plated Greek icons are actually made. Pretty interesting, the technique being very similar, in fact, to the way I learned to paint and prepare wooden icons in my years of painting classes.
The rocks of Meteora and the monasteries we visited were impressive. We ended up visiting only the Monastery of the Great Meteoron and the much smaller Monastery of Roussanou as the Monastery of Saint Stephen was closed (like it is on all Mondays). It was enough however to get a good feel of the place, landscape, history and all.
Just trying to conceive the fact that people built monasteries on top of these stone needles, some 600 meters tall, is enough to put the imagination to work.
We got back to Paralia Katerini around 6:00 pm, just in time for a swim out into the open sea before dinner.
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