Can a monastery be suspended from heaven" The answer is yes and it is located in Greece, in the region of Thessaly, we speak of the Monasteries of Meteora.

It is about six Orthodox Christian monasteries, World Heritage Site (1988) by UNESCO, built on the summit of rocky masses of sandstone beautifully carved by erosion, at a height of 600 meters and inhabited since the fourteenth century.

The first monks, hermits, reached those peaks (Meteoras, in the Greek language means body fallen from heaven) from their caves driven by an irrepressible desire to be closer to God.

History of the Meteora Monasteries

It is said that Athanasius or rather Saint Athanasius of Meteora, came to this area in the first half of the fourteenth century. He expelled from another monastic region, that of Mount Athos and he founded the Monastery of the Transfiguration (Great Meteor) with a group of faithful.
In the 15th century there was a rebirth of the hermitic ideal of retirement and the search for tranquility and Meteora was the perfect place for it, that is why up to twenty-four monasteries were built in the area, taking advantage of the abundance of cliffs and rocks in the area.

Hence the difficulty of its construction, in fact until the twentieth century when roads and tracks were enabled, the only way to ascend to the monasteries was by chair lifts and ropes with pulleys.

During the Turkish occupation of Greece, it was monasteries that kept Greek culture al...