Source:george-photoworld.blogspot.gr In Meteora, the unique Unesco monument you feel like you are in the heavens. Its a complex of six important monasteries perched on high cliffs. Meteora is just an hour and a half from Volos.

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If you are there on a day trip you have the time to visit

2 of the six monasteries

or

Visit one monasterie and the Theopetra cave

You may consider visiting the Natural History Museum of Meteora & Mushroom Museum.

Meteora

is from the biggest and most important group of monasteries in Greece after those in Mount Athos. We can locate the first traces of their history from 11th c. when the first hermits settled there. The rock monasteries have been characterized by Unesco as a unique phenomenon of cultural heritage and they form one of the most important stations of cultural map of Greece. [read more]

The Theopetra caves

It's the first excavated cave in Thessaly and the only one for the moment in Greece with deposits that start at the Middle Paleolithic and last until the end of the Neolithic period (3000 B.C.) without gaps. It is important for the transition from the Paleolithic to the Neolithic way of life in Greece.[read more]

The Theopetra caves 5 kilometres (3.1 miles) south of Meteora had inhabitants fifty millennia ago.^[4] The oldest known example of a man-made structure was found within a prehistoric cave in central Greece, according to the Greek culture ministry. The structure is a stone wall that blocked two-thirds of the entrance to the cave.

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Natural History Museum of Meteora & Mushroom Museum

The Museum contains a rich collection of birds and mammals as well as a comprehensive mushroom museum, the first of its kind in Greece. The museum houses approximately 300 exhibits of animals and several dozens of the main species of mushrooms. It is located on the National Highway connecting Trikala with Egnatia Highway, close to the big city hotels and five minutes from the city center on foot. Space for parking is available.[visit the museum site]

Meteora: Greece's spectacular monasteries in the sky By Jarryd Salem, CNN

Story highlights

• The monasteries of Meteora are one of Greece's biggest attractions

• The area's also popular for adventure travel, including rock-climbing and rafting