Meteora, Greece’s city in the sky

 

The Holy Monastery of Rousanou, one of the six still in operation in Meteora, was founded around 1545. (Jean-Pierre Lescourret/LPI)

Above the town of Kalambaka, on the north-western edge of Greece’s Plain of Thessaly, giant rock formations reach nearly 400m into the sky, like something out of a science fiction movie. Balanced across 24 pillars are monasteries, visible through the clouds.