Varlaam Monastery

The Monastery of the Transfiguration of the Redeemer, also known as the Great Meteoron, is a male monastery founded in the 14th century by St. Athanasius of Meteora and reached its apogee in the mid-16th century. The monastery is the largest of the six monasteries still active in Meteora that have been listed as UNESCO World Heritage Sites since 1988. It is located at the highest point of the Meteora, at an altitude of 534 metres.

The monastery of Roussanou is a women's monastery probably founded in the 16th century. The monastery declined in the 19th century and became a hermitage of the Varlaam monastery. The monastery has the peculiarity of occupying the entire plateau on top of the rock where it is located. It is one of the six monasteries that continue to be active in the Meteora and have been listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1988.

The present building of the Monastery of St. Nicholas Anapausas dates from the early 16th century and probably owes its name to an ascetic who lived on the rock in the 14th century. Fully adapted to the rock on which it was built, the monastery is suspended on several floors. The monastery was famous for having been painted by the Cretan painter Theophanes the Cretan in 1527 and houses one of the most important collections of post-Byzantine painting.