{"id":8350,"date":"2018-03-08T06:56:34","date_gmt":"2018-03-08T05:56:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hastenteufel.name\/blog\/?p=8350"},"modified":"2025-12-08T10:33:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T09:33:08","slug":"athens-to-stuttgart-road-trip-part-4-kalabaka%e2%81%a9-and-meteora","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hastenteufel.name\/blog\/athens-to-stuttgart-road-trip-part-4-kalabaka%e2%81%a9-and-meteora\/","title":{"rendered":"Athens to Stuttgart Road Trip Part 4 \u2013 Kalabaka\u2069 and Meteora"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

After our party evening, we had a good night’s rest and some coffee in the morning. After that, we hit the mountains behind Kalabaka to see the Meteora rocks and the monasteries up there. In the early 9th century, monks started to stay in the caves there. It took another 500 years, and they started to build the monasteries. The first woman who was ever allowed to enter one was Queen Marie of Romania in 1921. More information: Wikipedia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Kalabaka\u2069\" <\/picture>
Downtown Kalabaka<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Kalabaka\u2069\" <\/picture><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Monastery of the Holy Trinity<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

\"Monastery <\/picture>
It was built in 1475<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Monastery <\/picture>
Monastery of the Holy Trinity<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Holy <\/picture><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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\"Inside <\/picture>
Inside the Holy Trinity Monastery<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Looking <\/picture>
Looking down – in the good old times people and goods travelled up here with ropes and nets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"View <\/picture>
View from the Holy Trinity Monastery<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Inside <\/picture><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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\"Inside <\/picture><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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\"Monastery <\/picture><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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\"Meteora\" <\/picture><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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\"Meteora\" <\/picture><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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\"Kalabaka <\/picture>
Kalabaka from above<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Monastery <\/picture>
Monastery of St. Stephen<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Monastery <\/picture>
Monastery of St. Nicholas Anapausas<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Monastery <\/picture>
Monastery of St. Nicholas Anapavsa<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"It <\/picture>
It is a bit touristy here<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Time to hit the road again and drive to Kozani where we planned to spend the night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Above <\/picture>
Above Verdikoussa<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Outside <\/picture>
Outside Evangelismos<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Above <\/picture>
Above Leptokaria<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"View <\/picture>
The Ladon Lake or the Ladon Reservoir<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Bridge <\/picture>
Bridge over Limni Polyfytou<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Cows\" <\/picture>
Cows<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Goats\" <\/picture>
Goats<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Unpaved <\/picture>
Unpaved roads<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Only <\/picture>
Only a few more kilometers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After our party evening, we had a good night’s rest and some coffee in the morning. After that, we hit the mountains behind Kalabaka to see the Meteora rocks and the monasteries up there. In the early 9th century, monks started to stay in the caves there. It took another 500 years, and they started…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":8356,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kb_optimizer_status":0,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[224,130,705],"tags":[463,24,707,704],"class_list":["post-8350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe","category-greece-travel","category-kalabaka","tag-europe","tag-greece","tag-kalabaka","tag-meteora"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/hastenteufel.name\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/aa.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"Marc Hastenteufel","author_link":"https:\/\/hastenteufel.name\/blog\/author\/marc\/"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hastenteufel.name\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/aa.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hastenteufel.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hastenteufel.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hastenteufel.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hastenteufel.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hastenteufel.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8350"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hastenteufel.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14322,"href":"https:\/\/hastenteufel.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8350\/revisions\/14322"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hastenteufel.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hastenteufel.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hastenteufel.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hastenteufel.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}