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St. Nicholas Anapafsas

A small monastery stacked on several floors of a narrow rock, with frescoes by the Cretan painter Theophanes.

Photo: Patryk Morawiec · CC BY-SA 4.0
Open
Closed one day a week; check ahead
Price
Paid; a small fee
Time Needed
45 minutes
Address
Meteora, 422 00 KalambakaDirections
Getting There
A climb of about 140 steps from the road above Kastraki.

Why Go

The monastery is the first you reach coming up from Kastraki. Its tiny church was painted in 1527 by Theophanes Strelitzas, one of the great painters of the Cretan school.

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